get_posts() ignoring parameters

Hello everyone, wondered if someone could shed some light on this.

I have referenced the page for the function get_posts() in order to be able to grab the list of posts from a particular category (in this case ‘news’) but for some reason it’s returning a random post in a completely different category.

My code is as follows:

<?php
 global $blog;
 $myarticles = get_posts('numberposts=3&offset=0&category_name=news');
 foreach($myarticles as $article) :
 ?>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
	<?php the_date(); ?><br />

 <?php endforeach; ?>

Here I am grabbing all the News Articles I have written and placing the most recent three on the page, but it’s not doing that – instead it’s putting the title of one random post from my database. Can’t understand why – is there something I’m missing?

Thanks in advance for any help.
Michael