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Bit of distilled water, a tiny touch of washing up liquid, and maybe 20% alcohol and wipe with a micro fiber cloth. Quick wipe with a dry microfiber cloth, then your good to go. I do this for everything I buy, even if it's new as it'll remove the static, then brush each play after.
If the record is absolutely filthy you can play it wet, and the stylus will pull out quite a bit of crap - probs fine for a £30 audio technica, maybe don't use anything you've pumped up for.
I've got a house record that the recording must be from another filthy record, nothing is bringing that back.
A stylus cleaner is a good purchase BTW.
Dogs
Any advice for cleaning dirty records? (For reasonably budget and space) I have been given quite a few old records but some are reasonably dirty and don't play that well. The internet seems to be full of conflicting do's and don'ts.