summary of recent posts in single post template

Hi,

I’m trying to include a summary of recent posts from a specific category to appear in a single post template.

So far I have:

<h1>Latest News</h1>
   <?php query_posts('category_name=news&showposts=4');
  						while (have_posts()) : the_post();
 						 ?>

				<a class="title" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read the feature article: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

			<?php global $more; $more = false; ?>
				<span class="readmore_g"><?php the_content('<br />Read More'); ?></span>
                <?php $more = true; ?>

              <?php endwhile; ?>

This is followed by the loop for the regular single post. The problem is that it shows 4 full posts in the single view instead of one (obviously because of the showpost)

any suggestions?