Why the gap?

I don’t understand? I’m redesigning my sites front page to be really slick. On the left, in features, a single post from a category is to be displayed in full.

1, why does the header appear such a large gap from the ‘features’ bit?? http://www.btccaction.co.uk

code generating this:

<tr>
<td width="48%"><div class="index"><div id="indexnav"><h2>Features</h2></div></div></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="48%"><div class="index"><div id="indexnav"><h2>Latest Headlines</h2></div></div></td>
</tr>
</table>

<table border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="48%"><h2><a>" title="<?php the_time('l j F Y H:i') ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></h2></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="48%"></td></tr></table>

2, how do i include a whole post? I’ve tried using <?php the_content() ?> but this doesn’t work.

Several coffees and much frustration this evening 🙁 Thank you all for taking time to read!

Andy