Media enquiries

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


For general enquiries contact the National Customer Contact Centre - email enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk or telephone 03708 506 506.

To report an environment incident call our 24/7 hotline on 0800 80 70 60.

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

East

communications_east@environment-agency.gov.uk

Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire: 0800 917 9250

Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire: 0800 917 9265

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

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

0800 917 9252

Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire.

communications.GMMC@environment-agency.gov.uk

0800 917 9270

South East

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire south of and including Aylesbury, East Sussex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, London, most of Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. This includes Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, the Isle of Wight, Luton, Medway, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, Southampton, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham.

communications_se@environment-agency.gov.uk

0800 141 2743

South West

communications_sw@environment-agency.gov.uk

Avon, Dorset, Somerset, the unitary authorities of Bristol, Bournemouth and Poole, most of Wiltshire and parts of Hampshire and Gloucestershire: 0800 917 9271

Devon and Cornwall: 0800 917 9266