Lost white spaces when querying Access Database

Hi all, bit of a problem here. I've got a series of blogs that I need to display using the cfoutput tag. Each blog is saved in a field in an Access database. When I use cfoutput all the paragraph formatting is lost and it is just displayed as one paragraph. Eg:

"this is a paragraph.

This is also a paragraph"

..is displayed like this:

"this is a paragraph. This is also a paragraph"

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks
Andy