CORONATION Street actress Georgia Taylor, who plays Toyah Battersby, has announced she is quitting the soap.

The 22-year-old will leave the show in January, more than five years after joining as part of the Battersby clan. Taylor's contract ends in October, but she has agreed to extend it by three months to give scriptwriters time to devise "an explosive storyline" for her departure.

, said a Corrie spokeswoman.