According to the BBC there are now 16.5 million UK households which have Internet access. Not only is that figure up from last year, up by 1.2 million to be specific, but it also means that some two-thirds of UK homes are now online.

The Office for National Statistics figures reveal that those in the South East of the country are the most likely to be online at home, while those in the North East are not.

The BBC also reports that in those homes where there is no Internet access, representing some 35 percent of the households in the United Kingdom, there is a good reason why. Not that they cannot afford it, or did not understand it, but rather that they did not want it.

In fact, the proportion of these homes saying they did not want the Internet thanks very much has risen from just 3 percent in 2006 to 24 percent now.