More than 10,000 people in Powys have not used the internet in the last three months

Over the last 20 years the web has become more and more a part of everyday lives. Many people check social media or news websites when they wake up in the morning.

Shopping, work or simply filling out an application forms for council tax, or benefits, are increasingly online activities.

However data from the Office for National Statistics shows that almost one in seven residents aged 16 or over have not used the internet in the last three months.

That's 16,000 adults. And it is likely those people have never gone online, according to the ONS report.

The average rate of non-use for the UK was 10 per cent.

The ONS collected the data over the first three months of this year.

In total 100,000 people in Powys used the internet in the last three months, 86.2 per cent.

There are more people using the internet in 2018 than ever before.

The figures show that 25 per cent more people went online in the last three months this year than in 2012 when the ONS first began collecting this data.

The area covering Camden and the City of London has the highest internet usage with 97 per cent of residents having been online in the last three months. While Mid and East Antrim, in Northern Ireland, has the lowest usage, with just 74 per cent of people accessing the internet in the three month period.

The number of adults who have never used the internet is shrinking. Nationwide this figure dropped from 9.2 per cent in 2017 to 8.4 per cent this year.

Across the country virtually all people aged 16 to 34 are recent internet users, 99 per cent.

Only 44 per cent of adults aged 75 and over used the internet in the last three months.

At the end of 2017 Ofcom, the communications regulator, found more than one million homes in the UK did not have access to fast broadband.

This is classed as the minimum speed required to stream music and TV services such as Amazon and Netflix.

The Government has pledged that by 2020 every house and business in the country will have 10Mbps-plus broadband speeds.