{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_ukwzv6fziuovolfbnu2a","title":"They were queuing round the block in Bolton town centre to get their sugar lump","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/they-were-queuing-round-the-block-in-bolton-town-centre-to-get-their-ukwzv6fziu","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_ukwzv6fziuovolfbnu2a","seq":1481836,"kind":"article","title":"They were queuing round the block in Bolton town centre to get their sugar lump","url":"https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/26604014.thousands-queued-bolton-sugar-lump-beat-polio?ref=rss","summary":"In 1965, polio was still a major cause for concern and during one scare in August of that year, more than 1,700 Boltonians - factory and office workers, housewives and children - queued outside the Civic Centre in the town centre for a lunchtime sugar lump which was seen as the most effective way of giving people the vaccine.","published":"2026-10-03T04:00:00Z","seen":"2026-10-03T05:36:48Z","lang":"en","country":"GB","source":{"id":"kite-theboltonnews-co-uk-8c2f2a","name":"theboltonnews.co.uk","domain":"theboltonnews.co.uk","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q7719060","name":"The Bolton News","type":"newspaper","designations":["newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-theboltonnews-co-uk-8c2f2a","authors":["author"],"entities":[{"id":"Q184579","name":"Bolton","type":"place"}],"image":"https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/resources/images/21532956?htype=0&type=app","story":"st_ukwzv6fziuovolfbnu2a","category":"society","category_p":0.3100000023841858,"sentiment":"positive","tone":-0.009999999776482582,"political":0.03999999910593033}]}