function getTopStories(){
		var html = "<p class=\"red\">Top Stories<\/p>"+
"\n"+
"\n<p>"+
"\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/environment\/story.jsp?story=499013\" class=\"black12px\">"+
"\nScientist 'gagged' by No 10 over global warming<\/a>"+
"\n<\/p>"+
"\n"+
"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/middle_east\/story.jsp?story=499085\" class=\"black12px\">"+
"\nBlasts as Iraqi politicians sign interim constitution<\/a><\/p>"+
"\n"+
"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/legal\/story.jsp?story=499087\" class=\"black12px\">"+
"\nNo charges for 'racist' policemen exposed on TV<\/a><\/p>"+
"\n"+
"\n<p>"+
"\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/fisk\/story.jsp?story=499004\" class=\"black12px\">"+
"\nRobert Fisk: 'Same old Iraq, just a bit worse'<img src=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/img\/furniture\/clickandbuy\/pp.gif\" width=\"24\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\" alt=\"independent portfolio\"><\/a>"+
"\n<\/p>"+
"\n"+
"\n<p>"+
"\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/story.jsp?story=499011\" class=\"black12px\">"+
"\nFoster ridiculed over Caplin claims<\/a>"+
"\n<\/p>"+
"\n"+
"\n<p>"+
"\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/europe\/story.jsp?story=498996\" class=\"black12px\">"+
"\nConservatives end decade of Greek socialism <\/a>"+
"\n<\/p>"+
"\n";
		return html;
	}//method