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50 Years Ago – 15 May 1972

15 May 1972 HM Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) and the Duke of Edinburgh travelled to France to be greeted by

14 May 1972 The courts ordered the three railway unions on strike to ballot their members, even though the unions

13 May 1972 British Rail confirmed that its Sunday services wouldn’t operate following failure to reach agreement with the railway

20 May 1922 There were shootings and incendiary attacks in Belfast as lawlessness continued, with six premises being left ablaze.

James Cleverly, the Foreign Office Minister, has said that the Government has tried to speak to Iraqi authorities on numerous

19 May 1922 The plenary meeting of the Political Commission at Genoa adopted the Pact of Non Aggression. There was

18 May 1922 The Dail Eireann Peace Committee reported that they had failed for a second time to reach an

Sajid Javid, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, confirmed that prescription charges would be frozen for the

17 May 1922 America declined to take part in the conference planned at The Hague to discuss the Russian problem.

16 May 1922 It was agreed at the Genoa Conference that additional consideration of the Russian problem would be discussed