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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)
- Corporate
- [email protected]
- 07766 115182
Greg Burns (Deputy Head of News)
- Local government finance and devolution
- [email protected]
- 07920 061187
James Alexandre (Senior Media Relations Officer)
- Transport, welfare and local government improvement
- [email protected]
- 07766 820154
David Mills (Senior Media Relations Officer)
- Children and young people, education and public health
- [email protected]
- 07767 676236
Chris Mitchell (Senior Media Relations Officer)
- Housing, homelessness, planning, asylum and refugee resettlement, safer communities and democracy
- [email protected]
- 07561 600906
Karen Thornton (Editor, first magazine)
- [email protected]
- 07464 652610