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Originally Posted by chiactivate

I'm using 4.44 now

Have you tried this?

{*
$Id: news.tpl,v 1.1 2010/05/21 08:31:51 joy Exp $
vim: set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et:
*}
{if $active_modules.News_Management}
  {insert name="gate" func="news_exist" assign="is_news_exist" lngcode=$shop_language}

  {if $is_news_exist}

    {insert name="gate" func="news_subscription_allowed" assign="is_subscription_allowed" lngcode=$shop_language}

    <div class="news-box">

      <div class="news">

        <h2>{$lng.lbl_news}</h2>

        {if $news_message eq ""}

          {$lng.txt_no_news_available}

        {else}
      {* Added loop from news_archive.tpl *}
      {foreach from=$news_messages item=m name=news}

        <div{interline name=news additional_class="news-item"}>
          <div class="news-date">{$m.date|date_format:$config.Appearance.date_format}</div>
            <div class="news-title">{$m.subject|amp}</div>
             <div class="news-body">
          {if $m.allow_html eq "N"}
            {$m.body|escape|nl2br}
          {else}
            {$m.body|amp}
          {/if}
        </div>

      </div>

    {/foreach}
    {* Added loop from news_archive.tpl END *}
         {* <strong>{$news_message.date|date_format:$config.Appearance.date_format}</strong><br />
          {$news_message.body} *}
          <br /><br />
          <a href="news.php" class="prev-news">{$lng.lbl_previous_news}</a>
          {if $is_subscription_allowed}
            &nbsp;&nbsp;
            <a href="news.php#subscribe" class="subscribe">{$lng.lbl_subscribe}</a>
          {/if}

        {/if}

      </div>

    </div>

  {/if}
{/if}

I just added the loop from the "light and lucid 2 column" news_archive.tpl and commented out the original call for the one news message. I don't know if it will work or not but probably worth a try.