Hi,
do you think it's possible to create a RSS feed for your news?
It's not a big deal since the site's running on php anyways. You'd just have to make something like the news-page with a RSS template.
The format is described here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
The easiest way would be to take a look at any RSS file out there and just adapt the fields to your site.
regards
Jan