def get_news_text_from_html(data):
  """ Given a string of data, locate the span that has the id "textstire" and
  that ends in </span>. It needs to support nested spans.

  Arguments:
    data: A string with the entire html page.
  Returns:
    A string with just the content text.
  """
  # From the data, get just the content. I don't quite understand why this
  # didn't work with a regular expression.
  data = replace_circ_diacritics(data)

  try:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "lxml")
  except HTMLParseError:
    return 'error'

  tag = soup.find('div', id="article_text_content")
  desc = soup.find('meta', {'name': 'description'})

  if desc is None:
    return None

  content = desc['content']
  return content.encode('UTF-8') + ' ' + str(tag)