I've setup a custom .phtml block that I need to add in various places in a couple of different files. To do this I'm using the following code:

    <?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('core/template')->setTemplate('page/template/newsletter.phtml')->toHtml(); ?>

For some reason, this seems to be rendering some random Whitespace before the block itself, see attached image.

![enter image description here][1]


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/Zuahv.png
I'm using Magento 1.9.1