body {
	background: url(/images/template/bkgnd.png) repeat;
	line-height: 1.3em;
	font-size: 1.0em;
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}

img {
    border: none;
}

a {
    color: black;
    text-decoration: none;
}

a:visited {
    color: black;
    text-decoration: none;
}

/*** Layout ***/
#page-container {
	width: 1200px;
	margin: auto;
	background: white;
}

#header {
	width: 1200px;
	height: 81px;
	background: white url(/images/template/header.jpg) top right no-repeat;
}

#wrapper
	{
        background: url(/images/template/bkgnd-wrapper.jpg) repeat-y left;
		width: 1200px;
	}
/* we need this for IE 5.01 - otherwise the wrapper does not expand to the
necessary height (unless fixed, this problem becomes even more acute 
weirdness as the method is enhanced */
#wrapper
	{
/* Normally a Holly-style hack height: 1% would suffice but that causes 
IE 5.01 to completely collapse the wrapper - instead we float it */
	float: left;
/* NB. possibly only IE 5.01 needs to get this float value - otherwise 5.5 sometimes 
(I saw it happen many moons ago) makes the width of wrapper too small 
the float: none with the comment is ignored by 5.01,
5.5 and above see it and carry on about their business
It's probably fine to just remove it, but it's left here 
just in case that many moons ago problem rears its head again */
	float/**/: none;
	}
/* easy clearing */
#wrapper:after
	{
	content: '[DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL]'; 
	display: block; 
	height: 0; 
	clear: both; 
	visibility: hidden;
	}
#wrapper
	{
	display: inline-block;
	}
/*\*/
#wrapper
	{
	display: block;
	}
/* end easy clearing */

#content-center {
        float: left;
        width: 760px;
        background: white;
        margin-left: 120px;
}

* html #content-center {
        display: inline;
}

#content {
        width: 730px;
        margin: auto;
        color: black;
        font-size: 0.9em;
}

#content .hr {
     margin: auto;
     width: 730px;
     height: 1px;
     border-bottom-style: solid;
     border-bottom-color: #ccc;
     border-bottom-width: 1px;
     margin-bottom: 7px;
     margin-top: 3px;
}    

/***** Formatting for the landing page *****/
#wrapper-landing {
     width: 1200px;
}

#content-landing-right {
        /* background: white url(/images/template/bkgnd-landing-new.gif) repeat-y left; */
        float:right;
        width: 698px;
        margin: auto;
        color: black;
        font-size: 0.9em;
        padding-left: 8px;
        padding-right: 10px;
        padding-bottom: 8px;
		border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
		border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
}

#content-landing-right .hr {
     margin: auto;
     width: 698px;
     height: 1px;
     border-bottom-style: solid;
     border-bottom-color: #ccc;
     border-bottom-width: 1px;
     margin-bottom: 7px;
     margin-top: 3px;
}    

#content-landing-right .hr-thin {
     margin: auto;
     width: 325px;
     height: 1px;
     border-bottom-style: solid;
     border-bottom-color: #ccc;
     border-bottom-width: 1px;
     margin-bottom: 7px;
     margin-top: 3px;
}    

#content-landing-left {
	float:left;
	width: 150px;
	margin: auto;
	color: black;
	font-size: 0.9em;
	padding-left: 8px;
}

#content-landing-left .hr {
     margin: auto;
     width: 150px;
     height: 1px;
     border-bottom-style: solid;
     border-bottom-color: #ccc;
     border-bottom-width: 1px;
     margin-bottom: 7px;
     margin-top: 0px;
}    

#content-landing-left p.feedtext {
	font-size: 0.8em;
}

.landing-comments {
    text-align: right;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    color: #777777;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding-right: 10px;
}

. landing-comments:visited, . landing-comments:hover {
    color: #777777;
}

p.landing-readmore {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 1.3em;
font-style: italic;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}

p.landing-readmore a, p.landing-readmore a:visited {
color: black;
background: white;
text-decoration: none;
}

p.landing-readmore a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

p.landing-bottomread a, p.landing-bottomread a:visited {
    color: black;
    text-decoration: none;
    background: white;
    font-size: 1.3em;
    font-style: italic;
    padding-top: 3px;
    padding-right: 10px;
}

p.landing-bottomread a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

/* ====================================================== */
/***** End of Landing Page Changes *****/
/* ====================================================== */

/* ====================================================== */
/***** Begin of Index Page Comments *****/
/* ====================================================== */
.index-comments {
    text-align: right;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    color: #777777;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding-right: 10px;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
}

.index-comments:visited, .index-comments:hover {
    color: #777777;
}

/***** End of Index Page Comments *****/

#sidebar {
width: 320px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 0.8em;
float: left;
background: white url(/images/template/bkgnd-sidebar.gif) repeat-y left;
}

#sidebar-landing {
width: 320px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 0.8em;
float: right;
background: white;
}

#sidebar .header-control-right input[type="image"] {
    padding-bottom: 3px;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

#sidebar-landing .header-control-right input[type="image"] {
    padding-bottom: 3px;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

.classified_ads {
    padding-top: 8px;
    padding-bottom: 8px;
    margin: auto;
}

#header, #footer {
        width: 1200px;
        color: white;
        font-size: 0.8em;
        line-height: 1.1em;
}

#header a {
    background: transparent;
}

#footer {
        padding-top: 10px;
        clear: both;
        background-color: black;
        font-size: 0.8em;
        line-height: 1.3em;
        height: 30px;
}

#footer .clear {
     clear: both;
}

#footer .legal-right {
    float:right;
    padding-right: 10px;
}

#footer .legal-right p {
margin-top: 3px;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    line-height: 1.1em;
}

#footer .legal-right p a {
     text-decoration: none;
    background: transparent;
     color: white;
}

#footer .legal-left {
   float: left;
    padding-left: 10px;
}

#footer .legal-left p {
margin-top: 3px;
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 1.1em;
}

#footer .legal-left p a {
    text-decoration: none;
    background: transparent;
    color: white;
}

/* ====================================================== */
/*....TITLES, COMMENTS, COLOUR, SIZE ETC....*/
/* ====================================================== */
.article-body p a {
    color: #984b00;
}

#content a:visited {
    text-decoration: inherit;
}

#content a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

p.pageheading {
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 1.6em;
color: black;
font-style: italic;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
padding-top: 9px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}

p.title a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

p.title {
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 1.6em;
color: black;
font-style: italic;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}

p.title-landing a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

p.title-landing {
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 1.2em;
color: black;
font-style: italic;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}

p.subtitle {
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 1.2em;
color: black;
font-style: italic;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}

p {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 1.0em;
line-height: 1.4em;
margin-top: 0px;
}


p.readmore {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 1.3em;
font-style: italic;
}

p.readmore a, p.readmore a:visited {
color: black;
background: white;
text-decoration: none;
}

p.readmore a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

p.filelink {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 1.3em;
}

p.filelink a, p.filelink a:hover, p.filelink a:visited {
background: white;
text-decoration: underline;
}

.article_image {
    float: left;
    padding-right: 7px;
    padding-bottom: 7px;
}

.center {
text-align: center;
}

blockquote {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 0.9em;
}

.date {
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 1.2em;
color: black;
}

.posted {
        margin-bottom: 30px;
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        font-size: 0.8em;
        line-height: 1.2em;
        color: #656263;
}

.sidetitle {
margin: 10px 0;
font-size: 1.0em;
letter-spacing: 0.09em;
font-weight: normal;
background: transparent;
color: #666600;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;
}

.spacer {
clear: both;
}



.paginate {
font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 1.2em;
padding: 10px 6px 10px 4px;
margin: 0;
}

.paginate a {
color: black;
text-decoration: underline;
}

.paginate a:hover, .paginate a:visited {
color: black;
text-decoration: underline;
}

.input {
border-top:        1px solid #999999;
border-left:       1px solid #999999;
background-color:  #fff;
color:             #000;
font-family:       Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Arial, Sans-serif;
font-size:         11px;
height:            1.6em;
padding:           .3em 0 0 2px;
margin-top:        6px;
margin-bottom:     3px;
} 

.textarea {
border-top:        1px solid #999999;
border-left:       1px solid #999999;
background-color:  #fff;
color:             #000;
font-family:       Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Arial, Sans-serif;
font-size:         11px;
margin-top:        3px;
margin-bottom:     3px;
}

.checkbox {
background-color:  transparent;
margin:            3px;
padding:           0;
border:            0;
}

.submit {
background-color:  #fff;
font-family:       Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif;
font-size:         11px;
font-weight:       normal;
letter-spacing:    .1em;
padding:           1px 3px 1px 3px;
margin-top:        6px;
margin-bottom:     4px;
text-transform:    uppercase;
color:             #000;
}

.tbl { 
height: auto; 
}

.dropdown {
width: 180px;
}

.dropdown img {
padding-left: 5px;
padding-bottom: 1px;
}

.readcomments {
padding: 2px;
background: #f6f6f6;
border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;
}

.readcomments p {
color: #000000;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 0.9em;
}

.ads a {
background-color: transparent;
}

.ads a:hover {
background-color: transparent;
}

/* ====================================================== */
/***** Menu Bar *****/
/* ====================================================== */

#menubar {
float:left;
width: 120px;
margin-left: -880px;
color: white;
}

#menubar .menucontent {
    background: black;
    /* height: 317px; */
    width: 120px;
	padding-top: 15px;
}

#menubar .menucontent p {
    padding-left: 12px;
    padding-right: 0px;
    padding-top: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
}

#menubar .menucontent p a {
	font-size: 11px;
    color: white;
    background-color: black;
    text-decoration: none;
	line-height: 2.5em;
	font-style: italic;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}

#menubar .menucontent p a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#menubar .menucontent p a:visited {
    color: white;
    background-color: black;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.backtoarticle {
    float: right;
    padding-top: 3px;
    font-style: italic;
    font-size: 0.8em;
}

.backtoarticle a {
    text-decoration: underline;
    color: black;
}

.categorylink {
    font-size: 0.9em;
    color: #777777;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.categorylink:visited, .categorylink:hover {
    color: #777777;
}

a.linkurl {
    text-decoration: none; 
    color: #660000;
    font-size: 1.0em;
}
 a.linkurl:visited {
    text-decoration: underline;
    color: #660000;
}

.sharethis {
    float: right;
}

.showcomments {
    float: right;
    font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    font-size: 1.1em;
    color: black;
    font-style: italic;
}

.commentheader {
    font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    font-size: 1.2em;
    color: black;
    font-style: italic;
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}

#commentcontrol {
    cursor:pointer;
}

.commentcontrol {
    padding-left: 15px;
    padding-bottom: 15px;
}

.commentarticle {
    font-weight: bold;
}

.quoteoftheday p {
    margin-left: 15px;
}

.quoteoftheday p a {
    color: white;
}

.quoteoftheday p.author {
    font-size: 0.8em;
}

.hottopic p a {
    color: white;
}

#googlesearch {
    padding-top: 15px;
    padding-bottom: 15px;
    margin-left: 5px;
}

#header-controls {
    float: right;
    width: 250px;
    height: 20px;
    margin-top: 40px;
    margin-right: 15px;
}

#header-controls .header-control-right {
    float: right;
    padding-bottom: 4px;
}

#header-controls .header-control-right input[type="image"] {
    padding-bottom: 3px;
    vertical-align: middle;
}


/* =======================
** Columnizer
** ======================= */
.column{ 
	padding-top: 5px;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	padding-left: 5px;
}

.wide, .thin { clear:both; }

.column p img {
	width: 325px;
}

.first {
	padding-left: 5px;
}

.last {
	border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
    padding-left: 10px;
}

.lead-article p img {
	width: 690px;
}