Media enquiries

Contact our media teams if you’re a journalist with a media enquiry or interview request.


These contact details are only for journalists.

Nationwide and specialist media

newsdesk@defra.gov.uk

National and specialist media: 0330 041 6560

For urgent national media enquiries out of hours, call the duty press officer on 0345 051 8486.

English regions

Midlands

communications_midlands@environment-agency.gov.uk

Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Birmingham and the Black Country: 0800 917 9267

Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire: 0800 917 9258

Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire: 0800 917 9264

Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire: 0800 917 9265

North East

ynemedia@environment-agency.gov.uk

Northumberland, Durham and Teesside: 0800 917 9251

Yorkshire: 0800 917 9243

North West

Cumbria and Lancashire: clcommunications@environment-agency.gov.uk or 0800 917 9252

Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire: communications.GMMC@environment-agency.gov.uk or 0800 917 9270

South East and East

Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire: communications_se@environment-agency.gov.uk or 0800 917 9250

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, London, Oxfordshire, Surrey and the Crawley, Haywards Heath and Rye areas of Sussex. The team also covers Bracknell Forest, Luton, Medway, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham: communications_se@environment-agency.gov.uk or 0800 141 2743

South and South West

communications_sw@environment-agency.gov.uk

0800 028 2484

Devon and Cornwall and Isles of Scilly.

Wessex: Avon, Dorset, Somerset, the unitary authorities of Bristol, Bournemouth and Poole, most of Wiltshire and parts of Hampshire and Gloucestershire.

Solent and South Downs: Hastings in East Sussex, across to West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, Andover, Portsmouth, and Southampton.

*Not the Crawley, Haywards Heath or Rye areas of Sussex. See South East and East.

If you are NOT a journalist and would like to contact the Environment Agency, please e-mail the National Customer Contact Centre on enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk or phone 03708 506 506.

To report an environment incident, please call our 24-hour hotline at the time on 0800 80 70 60.