diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 9ee08cba4a1..e9ef4b61a8c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1939,6 +1939,7 @@ paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
 instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
 boundaries during scrolling.
 
++++
 ** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
 events from the console.  It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
 for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.