text in a html file

        <td><h2>Name</h2></td>
        <td><p>Lynley Lysons</p></td>


cat file | grep -A1 '<td><h2>Name</h2></td>' |  sed -n 's|<td><p>\(.*\)</p></td>|\1|p;s/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'

This returns me ...

     Lynley Lysons<newline>

instead of 

Lynley Lysons