Twenty five per cent of the UK’s population think the Net’s useless and say they wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole, according to a new survey from Which? and Mori… The survey, based on 7,000 UK households, shows that Londoners are by far the most wired of UK citizens, with an average 25 per cent of homes online in the South East compared to 14 per cent in Scotland and the north-east, and just 11 per cent in Northern Ireland. A third of people questioned in the UK thought the Web was too expensive to use and offered them nothing relevant to their lives, while 25 admitted they didn’t actually know what it was for. The survey reckons nearly 15 million have no plans to use the Web with many people citing cost and sheer uselessness as the reasons behind their choice.There are, however, some encouraging signs for net use in the UK. Of those who do go online, 64 per cent say the Net has become an integral part of their everyday lives, and 33 per cent of users are online for more than five hours per week. Which? also reports that poorer households are starting to go online in the sadly mistaken belief that it wil help their kids with schoolwork. A report from the Office of National Statistics contradicts the Which? findings. It says that just 3-6 per cent of poorer households are online, compared with 48 per cent of the better off . That’ll be the good ol’ digital divide rearing its ugly mug again.