Village school closes amid norovirus outbreak
A primary school has closed for Christmas two days early after children were struck down by a norovirus outbreak.
Leighton CP School, near Welshpool, is undergoing a deep clean after school governors and the headteacher made the decision not to open on Thursday or Friday.
The village school is the only one in Powys to have been forced to close in the latest outbreak of the virus, known as the winter vomiting disease.
Symptoms include diarrhoea and vomiting which usually last up to 48 hours.
