More than 15m UK houses now online.

This post comes from the Guardian Unlimited. The number of UK households with internet access has jumped by nearly one million over the past year, with London and the south-west leading the way, official data showed today.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that 15.23 million households now have internet access, equivalent to 61% of all households and an increase of 7% from 2006.

The proportion of homes with broadband access has grown sharply to 51%.

London and the south-west were the regions with the highest level of internet access, at 69%, and London remained top of the list when it came to broadband access as well. Click here to read the rest of this article.