How do I display a query in PHP table

My code

    <?php
    include('ConnectToDb.php');

    $query = "SELECT * FROM News WHERE NewsFlag = 1 ORDER BY PostDate DESC";
    $arrCount = -1;
    $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
        $ID=$row['ID'];
        $PostDate = $row['PostDate'];
        $NewsHeader = stripslashes($row['NewsHeader'])
;
        $NewsStart = stripslashes($row['NewsStart'])
;
            echo "<hr>";
            echo "<div>". date('j F Y',strtotime($PostDate)). "</div>";
            echo "<p>";
                $news_id = strval(sprintf("%1$04d",$ID));
                $array = scanImageFolder("newsImages/newsThumbs",$news_id);
                if(count($array)>0) {
                    echo "<img src='". $array[0]. "' alt='' />";
                }
            echo "<h2 style='text-align:center'><u><a href='latestnews_full.php?ID=$ID'>". $NewsHeader. "</a></u></h2>";
            echo "<div style='text-align:left'><h3>";
            echo $NewsStart. " ......<a href='latestnews_full.php?ID=$ID'>(more)</a><br />";
            echo "<div style='text-align:center'>";
            echo "</div>";
            echo "</h3></div>";
    }
?>
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displays my data nicely on four lines with date at the top, then a picture, title and then description.

However, I want to display the data as a table like this

    <table class="page_speed_470195377">
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2">postDate here</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td rowspan="2">picture here</td>
        <td>newsHeader here</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>newsStart here</td>
    </tr>
</table>
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I'm not sure how to echo the table cells correctly and all of my attempts so far have resulted in a white page. Could anyone please enlighten me?