Janice Battersby Janice Bernadette Battersby ( née Lee ) was introduced in 1997 as was the mother of the new " common " family in the street . Janice was married to Les , living with him and daughter Leanne from his earlier marriage , and a daughter of her own , Toyah , who was the result of a fling Janice had with Ronnie Clegg when she was 16 . Although not above occasional law - breaking , Janice was nowhere near as anti - social as Les . Janice worked in the Underworld garment factory , where she was consistently rude to her various managers and would enjoy spreading gossip among her workmates . She broke up with Les after beginning an affair with Dennis Stringer who was seeing Eileen Grimshaw at the time . Les was so upset that he attempted suicide , and while driving him to hospital Dennis was killed in a car crash ; Les survived . In 2004 , she sneaked into the storeroom for a crafty cigarette but she dropped the cigarette when Harry Flagg locked her in and a fire started . Just before the whole room burnt down , Nick Tilsley came to her rescue - and as a result of the fire , she ended up in hospital and Nick was sacked . Janice later became involved with police officer Mick Hopwood . When Mick and Les got into a fight , Les was unfairly imprisoned , and Janice split up with Mick . A later attempt at reconciliation with Les failed as a result of interference from Cilla Brown . Meanwhile her Underworld manager from 2004 to 2006 , Danny Baldwin , had his own nickname for her : " Lippy " . Biography . In the summer of 2005 , Janice to her horror discovered that she had nits . Drunkenly , she asked Sean Tully to shave her head . When she saw her bald head in the mirror she was appalled . A couple of weeks later she had a mud fight with resident Claire Peacock on the Red Rec after Claire called her a " pug faced scumbag " . 2006 - 2007 : Car accident . In a storyline in early 2006 , Janice and Leanne were involved in a car accident , when Danny didn ' t ask Kevin Webster to perform a full service on the car . They crashed into Gail Platt ' s front wall . Since then Janice became increasingly angry at the Websters , leading to a rivalry with Kevin ' s wife Sally , Janice ' s co - worker at Underworld . The rivalry came to a head on 27th February 2006 , when Janice was sacked by her employer Danny Baldwin , and shortly after she was punched by nemesis Sally , in the middle of the Rovers Return Inn . She left the street in shame . 2007 - 2008 : Romance with Roger Stiles . In January 2007 , Janice ' s heating broke down and she called plumber Roger Stiles to fix it , who turned up late . After socialising somewhat , Roger asked Janice to go away with him for a few months to France , which she accepted . She returned alone in March and Roger returned in June . She found out that her stepdaughter Leanne was a prostitute ; after everyone found out the news , Janice got into a brawl with Kelly Crabtree . Janice and Roger reconciled , and Roger gave Leanne a loan for Valandro ' s , the restaurant she planned to open with Paul Clayton . His lack of money meant he struggled to pay his rent , so he moved in with Janice . Leanne ' s restaurant burnt down . A few weeks later , Paul told the police he and Leanne had set the place on fire for insurance money . Janice was furious with Leanne for lying to her . 2008 - 2010 : Lottery scam . In September 2008 , Janice and Leanne discovered that one of the Lottery syndicate tickets for Underworld was a winner , to the tune of almost £25 , 000 . Initially willing to tell the other girls of the win , Janice decided to keep quiet after some persuasion from Leanne . They claimed the winnings by setting up a bogus bank account in Rosie Webster ' s name . In the meanwhile , Rosie vanished , much to the worry of Kevin and Sally . When they found out about Rosie ' s win they began to wonder if she had absconded with the cash . Unable to live with her guilty conscience knowing the truth about the money , Janice eventually came clean to Sally and Kevin the following month . She was arrested while at work in the factory . Roger later found out about the scam from the factory girls . This led to the departure of Roger , who had a row with her over the scam and left the same day . Janice was left on the street in tears as Roger drove away . Leanne saw her from her upstairs window and callously just shut the blind . In Novmber , Janice went on trial for the scam alone , she had agreed to keep Leanne ' s name out of it . She received a community service sentence , much to the annoyance of the colleagues who she had betrayed . The following month she started her work placement at the canteen at Weatherfield General Hospital and was initially delighted to discover that her supervisor was Emily Bishop , who she saw as a pushover . However , she was proven wrong as Emily was very strict with her . 2010 onwards : Trevor Dean . In 2010 , Janice welcomed in new lodger and binman Trevor Dean . She had conflict earlier on with him due to him refusing to take her bins , but they got along . She was upset when he had interests for her boss Carla Connor and began spending more time with her . Janice was nearly out of work when the factory was blown up by ex - factory boss and killer Tony Gordon , but temporarily worked under the viaduct with her co - workers when Nick Tilsley set up a rival firm Nick ' s Knicks there . Trevor had later ended his relationship with Carla after briefly working in the factory , and left Weatherfield to try to sort things out with his ex - girlfriend . During a tram crash in December 2010 , Janice put her medical skills to use by helping out with the injured . In January 2011 , she met a van driver named Gaz at a Rovers ' singles night and had agreed to go on holiday to Tenerife with him the following day . However , she got too drunk and wasn ' t allowed to board the plane so had to go home . On her return she interrupted a burglar who ran out of her flat and pushed her over , which terrified Janice . She briefly stayed with Leanne and Peter Barlow at 9a Rosamund Street but after outstaying her welcome with Peter and realising that she couldn ' t live in the flat again , moved in with Julie Carp . In March 2011 , Trevor had returned to the area working as a binman again . They caught up . Janice later lost her job when she mouthed - off in the pub and tried to convince her friends they should strike as Carla had to reduce their hours due to problems with getting an order . Carla heard this and sacked Janice on the spot . She then began spending more time with Trevor . After he packed his job in and planned on travelling the world , and asked Janice to come with him . She did , and after a tearful goodbye to Leanne , they got in his VW and left Weatherfield , not before soaking her old colleagues by getting Trevor to speed through a puddle . Janice grew up on New Port Street Janice was unable to attend Leanne ' s thirtieth birthday in July 2011 , as she was in France with Trevor , however she sent a card . On the day of Tina McIntyre ' s funeral in June 2014 , Leanne was called away to attend to Janice at Toyah ' s flat in Liverpool . While looking after the property , Janice had injured herself trying to climb through a window after locking herself out . Quotes . " Hi ya , Sally . " ( First line ) " I thought , what ' s the most frightening thing I can come as ? They had no Les Battersby outfits so I had to go wi ' next best thing . " ( about her Halloween costume ) " Losers ! " ( Final line , to her friends )