LCA News

Cartoon of the Month

As keen LCA-watchers will know, we love cartoons and have for many years commissioned them on the themes of London politics, elections and issues of the day. We are publishing a cartoon on our website every month from leading cartoonist Martin Rowson and this is the latest offering to represent London during March as we…

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LCA recruit Helena Carrie

London Communications Agency are delighted to announce they have recruited Helena Carrie as an Account Executive. Helena joined the team in late March and has strated working on a number of key client accounts, including Kings Cross Central Partnership, London Elects, Access Finsbury Square and London + Partners. Helena brings to her new role the experience…

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Emirates Air Line getting ready for take off

The construction of the Emirates Air Line, the UK’s first urban cable car, has reached another milestone with the installation of the largest lifting capacity crawler crane in the UK. The crane will erect the South Tower of the cable car which begins this week following the construction of the North Intermediate Tower earlier this…

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Cartoon of the Month

As keen LCA-watchers will know, we love cartoons and have for many years commissioned them on the themes of London politics, elections and issues of the day. We are publishing a cartoon on our website every month from leading cartoonist Martin Rowson and this is the latest offering to represent London during February as we…

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Luke Blair: Public Sector Holding ‘Sham’ Consultations

If there is one thing public sector communications professionals are frequently criticised for, it is holding ‘sham’ consultation exercises. Usually these accusations spring up when views are being sought over changes to local services – changes to health services for example, or local schools, or bin collections. It is down to the relevant authority’s communications…

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LCA Appoints Martin McCrink

LCA has appointed Martin McCrink as an Account Director who began working at the company last week. Martin joins from Camargue where he worked in the Cheltenham office on a range of projects providing consultancy on corporate communications, planning and consultation, internal communications, public affairs and stakeholder management. In that time he completed a successful…

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Cartoon of the Month

As keen LCA-watchers will know, we love cartoons and have for many years commissioned them on the themes of London politics, elections and issues of the day. We are publishing a cartoon on our website every month from leading cartoonist Martin Rowson and this is the latest offering to represent London during January. Martin is…

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Luke Blair: Corporate Culture Should be a Priority in Public Sector

Communications professionals employed by the public sector do much more than pump out press releases on behalf of their organisations. Or at least, they should do. Because their job is about much more than just the obvious requirements of the role. Most organisations’ staff look to their press offices with comfortable acceptance that they are…

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Salute to Giles

Giles Dolphin retired this month from his role in charge of Strategic Planning at the GLA, a position he has occupied since the GLA was first established in 2000. His retirement drinks party last Friday night was quite a do and the turnout was extraordinary and perfectly fitting to have both Boris and Ken present…

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Tweets of the (last two) Week(s)

Social media and, in particular, Twitter is becoming a valuable media monitoring and interaction resource to London Communications Agency. As a result, we look at a number of Tweets that represent the issues in London each week. Some of these are political; some are of particular importance to London and Londoners; some to our clients;…

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