A woman who started her own cleaning business with a mop and a bucket when she was aged 18 earned almost £5million last year.
Rags to riches Rachael Flanagan, 34, from a South Wales steel worker’s family, started her company as a teenager after failing her business studies A level at school.
Sixteen years on, Mrs Buckét (pronounced ‘bouquet’), now employs 320 staff and has won a series of prestigious contracts, including cleaning the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
