blog posts on another page

I’m redesigning my site at the moment here and have in mind to use blog posts from my existing blog (here) in the new layout in a ‘news’ page. Just wondering, without disrupting what already exists, how do I get posts to be displayed on, say, http://www.lightoverwater.co.uk/example/news.php using just the posts (rather than the sidebar containing calendar, tag clouds etc)…
I’d rather not but would it be easier re-hashing a wp theme to look like the design I have made?
cheers