display page content followed by all posts of a given catagory

Hi,

I’m new to wordpress and I’m struggling with an idea.

I want to be able to create pages within wordpress that:-

1. Have editable content.
2. Include after that content a display of all posts from a given catagory (or set of catagories).

For instance I might have the following catagories:-

IT-NEWS
FINANCIAL-NEWS

I want to create a page called IT and another page called FINANCIAL.

Each page will display it’s content (editable) followed by all the posts of the relevant catagory.

I have been thinking that I could achieve this with a page template. The template would render the page content followed by a list of posts from a set of catagories hard coded into the template.

Is this the right approach?
Are there any sample templates that already do this?

In all other respects I want these pages to look like any other page.

Regards,
Terje.