Latests posts is breaking comments section

Hi all,

I’m quite new to WordPress but I have this code:

<div class="latest">
		<h3>Latest News</h3>

		<?php query_posts('showposts=3'); ?>

		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
			<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

				<div class="item">
					<h4 class="title">
						<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="View <?php the_title() ?>">
							<?php the_title() ?>
						</a>
					</h4>
					<span class="date"><?php the_time('F jS'); ?></span>
	            </div>

			<?php endwhile; ?>
		<?php endif; ?>

		<p><a href="news/">More news</a></p>
	</div>

Which works fine, however with this code in my page, my comments no longer show. Is this something to do with the method of grabbing the posts?

The template I have this code on is just a standard page not a blog, so I wouldn’t have thought retrieving posts would be a problem.