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Media office contacts

The LGA's media office provides the national voice of local government in England and Wales on the major news issues of the day for national, regional and local press.

Our team offers a range of services to journalists including:

  • issuing press releases;
  • providing briefings and reactive statements;
  • arranging broadcast interviews with spokespeople available to talk on a wide array of topics.

You can contact our media officers on the mobile numbers below or email [email protected].

If you are calling out-of-hours please call 020 7664 3333 (a voicemail will detail the on-duty press officer).

You can also follow us on X at @LGANews.

Lynne Morris (Head of News)

Greg Burns (Deputy Head of News)

James Alexandre (Senior Media Relations Officer)

David Mills (Senior Media Relations Officer)

Chris Mitchell (Senior Media Relations Officer)

  • Asylum and refugee resettlement, safer communities, democracy 
  • [email protected]
  • 07561 600906

Daisy Roberts (Senior Media Relations Officer) 

Emily Wilson (Senior Media Relations Officer)

Joe Frith (Media Relations Officer)

Karen Thornton (Editor, first magazine)