um.. came across one of fords oldies http://www.wyldryde.org/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4446/Simple_RSS_Feed_Script.html
Seems to be working (so far)..
I am getting a "![CDATA[" prefixing the title tho, not sure if its meant to be a date and time..
anyway i should be ok with this for a bit
cheers