We're working on a new custom Blog that we hope to have up and running soon.
We've been having a lot of problems with Blogger recently as it's unreliable so we're making a custom one that will allow everyone who's a forum member to publish news articles. They will then have to be approved my admin before being posted but it will just be a case of filling in about 5 fields on a forum then hitting submit.
The new Blog will look the same as it is now graphically.