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One night in January, I was at a low ebb in a period of particularly low ebbs, when a friend messaged to say she’d booked a caravan in Croyde for the last week of the Easter school holidays. She and her husband had crunched the data on vaccine distribution and the likely effects of lockdown on hospital admissions, and felt it was worth taking a chance.
I was less optimistic, but Parkdean Resorts, which operates Ruda Holiday Park in north Devon, has a Covid policy that meant we could shift the trip to another time of year if things hadn’t opened up by then – though you do have to pay the difference in price for your stay. I transferred the deposit for our family of four, thinking October half-term seemed more realistic.
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Meanwhile, 24 percent of respondents in the survey said a home should have a broadband speed of 30Mbps or greater.
This is the rate that Ofcom considers to be “superfast”, but only 69 percent of homes in the UK can reach this speed which is 27.8 million households in the UK.
Around 8.6 million homes in the UK can’t get “superfast” broadband meaning that nearly a third of homes sold each year have slower broadband.
The average house price in the UK is around £245,443, as of October 2020.
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Survey respondents were asked how much they would offer for a house with slow broadband.