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You may want to top-align the menu area and the main area (ie News area at open).
Also, apply some left padding to the title of the main area - in class head - so that the entire title of the section is within the top bar. 5px should be enough.
Also, for maintenance purposes, you may want to apply
a:link, a:active, a:visited
rather than listing them separately.
Nice to have: take out 'valign="top"' and use styles instead. Not even sure why you are using table rows for each news item. Perhaps <div>s will work just as well?
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well i have to put the class tags in each of the links for the menu because i already have the global anchor tags doing soemthing else, if youll notice onthe link page the links behave differently, and i have found this is the only ay to do it, if you know an easier way please let me know