York Cleaning Angels has signed a contract to clean the York head office of Otisdale, the rapidly-expanding estate agency in Micklegate.

The deal takes the total of offices covered by York Cleaning Angels to more than 40 - and two more staff are being recruited to cope, bringing its number on the payroll to 11.

The fact that eight of the York Cleaning contracts relate to estate agencies in the city should come as no surprise. Shaun Canner, partner in the cleaning company, used to work for William H Browns estate agents, in Goodramgate, and at the former Springfield agency, in Skeldergate.

"It's who you know," he said.