Don’t worry, the page numbers haven’t gone from the bottom of the news page, it’s just that the news for each month is placed in the Archives area of the news at the end of the month (welcome to the 1st of October). Where is time going these days? 
The front news page only shows this months news, infilling with news from the previous month if there’s not enough to fill the news page yet (cunning eh?). If you want to find a previous news article, either use the search feature, or have a butchers in the archive area.
