Their goal was to provide UK homes with electronic hardware that could download pages of news, reports, facts and figures.

When switchover was completed, 98.5% of UK homes were be able to receive the service.

Various research suggests that one-fifth to one-quarter of UK homes are under-insured*.

By 2007, 12 million UK homes were passed by these high-speed broadband links.

The £11.7bn scheme will provide 30 million UK homes with exact details of how much gas and electricity they use.

The green deal aims to improve the energy efficiency of UK homes and help people to cut their energy payments.

(The UK average home is around £165k, the £208k for England is a clear difference).

So in 2-3 years you could cover all the UK homes (25 million).

Only 3 out of 10 UK homes contain books.

House prices might be falling, but the average UK home is still worth £228,095 - not exactly something you'd want to see go up in smoke.