function initialiseSlides()
 {
       $('#news').innerfade({
            speed: 1000,
            timeout: 15000,
            type: 'sequence',
            containerheight: '220px'

        });

        slideShow(6000);
        
        // Hide the description areas, these will be displayed via the timer
        $('#feature_performance').show();
        $('#feature_services').hide();
        $('#feature_loyalty').hide();

        //$('#content-3-col-left').corner("round tr 20px");
 }
 
 function slideShow(speed)
	 {
	    //append a LI item to the UL list for displaying caption
	    $('ul.slideshow').append('<li id="slideshow-caption" class="caption"><div class="slideshow-caption-container"><h3></h3><p></p></div></li>');

	    //Set the opacity of all images to 0
	    $('ul.slideshow li').css({opacity: 0.0});
    	
	    //Get the first image and display it (set it to full opacity)
	    $('ul.slideshow li:first').css({opacity: 1.0});
    	
	    //Get the caption of the first image from REL attribute and display it
	    $('#slideshow-caption h3').html($('ul.slideshow a:first').find('img').attr('title'));
	    $('#slideshow-caption p').html($('ul.slideshow a:first').find('img').attr('alt'));
    		
	    //Display the caption
	    //$('#slideshow-caption').css({opacity: 0.7, bottom:0});
    	
	    //Call the gallery function to run the slideshow	
	    var timer = setInterval('gallery()',speed);
    	
	    //pause the slideshow on mouse over
	    $('ul.slideshow').hover(
		    function () {
			    clearInterval(timer);	
		    }, 	
		    function () {
			    timer = setInterval('gallery()',speed);			
		    }
	    );
	
    }

    function gallery() {


        //if no IMGs have the show class, grab the first image
        var current = ($('ul.slideshow li.show') ? $('ul.slideshow li.show') : $('#ul.slideshow li:first'));

        //Get next image, if it reached the end of the slideshow, rotate it back to the first image
        var next = ((current.next().length) ? ((current.next().attr('id') == 'slideshow-caption') ? $('ul.slideshow li:first') : current.next()) : $('ul.slideshow li:first'));

        //Get next image caption
        var title = next.find('img').attr('title');
        var desc = next.find('img').attr('alt');

        //Set the fade in effect for the next image, show class has higher z-index
        next.css({ opacity: 0.0 }).addClass('show').animate({ opacity: 1.0 }, 1000);

        //Hide the caption first, and then set and display the caption
        $('#slideshow-caption').animate({ bottom: -70 }, 300, function() {
            //Display the content
            $('#slideshow-caption h3').html(title);
            $('#slideshow-caption p').html(desc);
            $('#slideshow-caption').animate({ bottom: 0 }, 500);
        });

        //Hide the current image
        current.animate({ opacity: 0.0 }, 1000).removeClass('show');
        
        //Show description section that corrosponds to the image
        //alert("gallery-" + desc);

        $('#feature_performance').hide();
        $('#feature_services').hide();
        $('#feature_loyalty').hide();

        $(desc).show();

    }