A SICKNESS bug has swept through a Huddersfield school.

Health chiefs have been called in to advise staff at St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School where 65 children were absent yesterday.

Three of head teacher Harry Rowan’s staff were also affected by the highly-infectious Nororvirus winter bug, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea.

Other schools and hospitals across Yorkshire have also been hit by the outbreak.

A spokesman for Kirklees Education said: “Our advice to the school has been to liaise with the Health Protection Unit and to warn parents that there are children with the infection. If children do show symptoms, the advice is to keep them off school for 48 hours after they have been ill.

“Schools do get bugs and infections at this time of year.”