diff --git a/lang/en_utf8/help/forum/forumtypenews.html b/lang/en_utf8/help/forum/forumtypenews.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ed115d24fc7
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+++ b/lang/en_utf8/help/forum/forumtypenews.html
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<h1>News Forum</h1>
+
+<p>The news forum is a special forum that is automatically created for 
+each course and for the front page of the site and is a place for general 
+announcements. You can only have one news forum per course.</p>
+
+<p>The "Latest news" block will display recent discussions from this special 
+forum (even if you rename it).  For this reason the forum will be automatically 
+recreated by Moodle if you are using the LatestNews block.</p>
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diff --git a/mod/forum/mod_form.php b/mod/forum/mod_form.php
index 48d8c4dd99c..5af7b1bbd42 100644
--- a/mod/forum/mod_form.php
+++ b/mod/forum/mod_form.php
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ class mod_forum_mod_form extends moodleform_mod {
         //we want the form to display them if they are set.
         if ($typevalue[0]=='news'){
             $type->addOption(get_string('namenews', 'forum'), 'news');
+            $type->setHelpButton(array('forumtypenews', get_string('forumtypenews', 'forum'), 'forum'));
             $type->freeze();
             $type->setPersistantFreeze(true);
         }