theme CSS issues

hello all – I have been trying to setup Equilibrium on a new site (http://bit.ly/dDshCk) but have come to a bit of a stumbling block – hopefully it’s not too tricky to fix?

basically, compared to the demo (http://equilibrium.madebyon.com/) the styling of the featured content (whcih I have called Festival Highlights) at the top of the page is all over the place – the font-size is wrong, the <p> tags are missing (?) the spacing of the ‘Continue reading’ links are skew-whiff (as they are in the Latest Posts section at the bottom)…

there is also an issue with the spacing after the Search widget on the right (half way down)…

perhaps I flicked a wrong switch somewhere along the line – anyone able to help? yours hopefully…