Text display issues... pls help

[Sorrow]

Here is my problem. The website i am currently building is a movie reviews website. In the reviews and in the news and we need to write some text that is saved to the database. This is working fine and even in the database there is the carriage return but when i am displaying the text all the text is in one paragraph how can I keep the carriage return when I fetch the data from the database.

 

Here is my code :

 

<?php

include 'opendb.php';

$query  = "SELECT * FROM News ORDER BY newsid DESC";
$result = mysql_query($query);

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
    echo "<font face = 'Verdana'><table width='450' border = '0'>

<tr>
  <td colspan ='2'><b>{$row['newsTitle']} </td>
  <td>{$row['Date']}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td colspan = '2'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</td>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan = '3'><img src='{$row['MoviePic']}'width='200' height='250' >
<br>Director : {$row['Director']}
<br>
<br>Actors : {$row['Actors']} </td></tr>
<td width ='300' colspan='2' align='justify'>{$row['News1']}</td>
<tr><td><img src='{$row['Pic1']}'width='200' height='200' >
<img src='{$row['Pic2']}'width='200' height='200' ></td></tr>

<tr><td><td width ='300' colspan='2' align='justify'>{$row['News2']}</td></tr>
</td>
</tr>
</table></font>


";
}
mysql_close($con);

?>

[akitchin]

enter the nl2br() function:

 

$text = "blah blah blah
blah blah
blah
this n that
stuff!";

echo $text.'<br />';
echo nl2br($text);