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 Resources (finance, audit, workforce, pensions) and improvement
[email protected]
07920 061187
James Alexandre (Senior Media Relations Officer)
Public Service Reform and Innovation (digital, devolution, local government reform, future of local government)
[email protected]
07766 820154
Maddy Hayden (Senior Media Relations Officer)
Health and Wellbeing (including adult social care and welfare reform)
[email protected]
07751 714815
David Mills (Senior Media Relations Officer)
Children, Young People & Families, and Culture, Tourism and Sport
[email protected]
07767 676236
Chris Mitchell (Senior Media Relations Officer)
Inclusive Growth (housing, homelessness, planning, infrastructure, transport, business support, employment, skills)
[email protected]
07561 600906
Daisy Roberts (Senior Media Relations Officer)
Neighbourhoods (street scene, licensing, trading standards, waste, green space, biodiversity, net zero)
[email protected]
07979 244820
Joe Frith (Media Relations Officer)
Safer and Stronger Communities (including democracy, asylum, and fire services)
[email protected]
07385007872
Karen Thornton (Editor, first magazine)
[email protected]
07464 652610