Welsh love to surf the net

The Welsh spend the most time surfing the internet, according to a new report. Web users in Swansea spend an average of 66.7 hours online each month, almost 50 per cent more time than users in London, the Virgin.net survey reveals. Towns in the East-Midlands and North-East, where internet surfing patterns were found to be sporadic and intermittent, feature near the bottom of Virgin.net's Surfing Scales. Scottish surfers spend 15 per cent more time online than surfers in the South-East, according to Virgin's survey - carried out with customers of its unmetered internet access service, which costs £13.49 a month. TOP TEN UK CITIES/TOWNS Average number of hours spent online per customer/month 1 Swansea 66.7 2 Reading 62.7 3 Guildford 62.9 4 Dundee 59.8 5 Liverpool 57.1 6 Sheffield 55.7 7 Blackpool 55.6 8 Manchester 52.9 9 High Wycombe 51.1 10 Bournemouth 51.1 Get Web User magazine every fortnight - subscribe here now