Hundreds of new jobs are to be created by upmarket snack firm Tyrrells following its takeover by a US firm, its managing director has said.

The Herefordshire-based maker of hand-cooked crisps was bought by Amplify Snack Brands for £300m.
Mike Hedges said the move would see hundreds of people recruited globally over the next three years.
He said he did not think the UK leaving the EU would adversely affect business at the company.
"In 2008, during the last recession, none of the premium crisp brands suffered and I don't think they will this time either - if there is a downturn," said Mr Hedges.
"We have no business in North America and Amplify has no business over here," he said.
"They're going to take the Tyrrells brand and roll it out in North America and we'll take their SkinnyPop brand, and others, and do the same in the UK.
"We'll have to take on more staff to do that and I'd say that, over the next three years, we'll recruit hundreds globally."
Tyrrells employs more than 300 people in the UK.
In August last year it acquired Australian firm Yarra Valley Snack Foods, and earlier this year bought Germany-based Aroma Snacks.
The company was founded in 2002 by potato farmer William Chase  who realised that making crisps was more profitable than selling potatoes to supermarkets.
Mr Chase sold the Leominster company in 2008 for nearly £40m and used some of the the proceeds from the sale to set up a distillery making premium vodka and gin.


Efforts to restructure Glamorgan County Cricket Club's multi-million pound debts have been hit by a last-minute hitch.

Chairman Barry O'Brien told the club's Annual General Meeting on Tuesday that an appeal from one councillor could force the matter back to cabinet.
He said it meant that the accounts could not yet be finalised.
Cardiff Council confirmed a councillor has "called in" the cabinet's ruling, as allowed under its constitution.
The club had thought the local authority had already agreed to cancel the sum as it tries to restructure its finances.
If the objection is ruled valid, it would go to the council's policy review and performance committee.
The councillor - whose identity has not been released - would then present objections to the committee, which could then ask the cabinet to consider it again.
That cabinet meeting would then be held next month, where members could either confirm or overturn their decision.
Mr O'Brien told the club's AGM that Glamorgan were "very close to securing our financial future."
Last month, the council announced it had approved writing off Â£4.4m of the Â£6.4m it is owed by the club.
Glamorgan asked creditors to write off 70% of the money and interest owing and agree to a restructuring of the remaining 30%.
Allied Irish Bank and former chairman Paul Russell have also agreed to write off the majority of their debts.


The family of a soldier found dead at Deepcut Barracks has urged a coroner to let her body be exhumed so a "full inquiry" can be held into her death.

Pte Cheryl James, 18, from Llangollen, Denbighshire, was found with a bullet wound to her head in Surrey in 1995.
Her parents said a dispute over the ballistics evidence could only be resolved if her body is exhumed.
Coroner Brian Barker QC said he would wait for a doctor's report before he made the decision.
He told the pre-inquest review at Woking Coroner's Court that exhumation was a "difficult and unusual" step.
Alison Foster QC, representing Pte James' family, said her relatives were "really dismayed to be at this point today".
"From our standpoint, an exhumation would be necessary for you to carry out a full and proper inquiry."
Bullet fragments in Pte James' body were yellow, while the SA80 rifle she was armed with used red bullets, Ms Foster said.
"There is no actual evidence that it was an SA80 that caused the bullet wound to Cheryl," she added.
The coroner said the full inquest on 1 February would consider whether there were "shortcomings" with the barracks's policies on sexual behaviour, supervision of young females, drugs, alcohol and accommodation.
Another pre-inquest hearing is to held on 10 September.
Pte James was one of four soldiers found dead at Deepcut, in Camberley, between 1995 and 2002.
Surrey Police's request that her inquest should be heard alongside fresh inquests into the deaths of Privates Sean Benton, Geoff Gray and James Collinson was turned down.
A spokeswoman for the force said: "[Surrey Police] has now completed the review of disclosure documents relating to Pte James."
She said arrangements for the inquest were a matter for the coroner.
"Surrey Police is supportive of the view that there should be a thorough inquest into circumstances surrounding the death of Pte James and our thoughts remain with her family."


Scientists have been studying ice samples from glaciers around the world, but how do you stop it from melting?

14 September 2016 Last updated at 07:06 BST
Researchers all over the world, including in the French Alps, have been drilling into huge ice glaciers to learn more about them.
Glaciers are huge sheets of ice made from lots of layers of snow that has been pressed together.
They can be found in snowy mountain regions of the world.
Some glaciers only last for a few months, as they melt when the weather gets warmer.
This means that scientists have had to find a clever way of keeping their research samples cool by sending them to Antarctica!
We spoke to BBC science reporter Victoria Gill to find out more about how they do it...


Cricket's first day-night Test using a pink ball is an "exciting concept", says Australia captain Steve Smith.

Australia and New Zealand play under floodlights at the Adelaide Oval in a bid to boost attendances.
"I can't wait to get out and give it a crack," said 26-year-old Smith. "We are creating history."
New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum echoed Smith's enthusiasm as he said day-night Tests could be "outstanding for the game moving forward".
The match will be the third and final Test of the series between the two countries, with Australia leading 1-0.
"I'm sure a lot of people are going to be watching around the world and I think that is really exciting for world cricket," added Smith.
"The crowds have rolled in. The first two Tests were a little bit disappointing with the crowds but there are some big numbers expected for at least the first three days here."
A pink ball, which has been designed to be visible in natural light and under floodlights, will be used but all other playing conditions remain unaltered for the match.
"I think people are voting with their feet," said McCullum, with a crowd of 50,000 expected for the first day.
"They are encouraged by what the pink ball test match has to offer.
"And for us to play in front of 40,000-odd people in a Test match is pretty amazing, so we're really, really excited about it.
"Hopefully it goes off brilliantly and there's no challenges, no problems.
"If we have that final session on the fifth day under lights, and a Test match result is in the balance, then I think that it could be anything for Test cricket."
John Stephenson, head of cricket at the Marylebone Cricket Club, which is the guardian of the laws of the game, hopes the day-night format can expand to other countries on the back of this match.
"My hope is first and foremost that more people come to watch. I don't think it should be judged solely on this Test match," he said.
"What I'd like to see is other Test nations look to embrace it.
"I don't think broadcasters really want Test cricket played to empty stadia."
The opening day of the Test will mark a year to the day that Australia batsman Phillip Hughes passed away after being struck by a bouncer during a domestic match.
A tribute to Hughes will be played on the big screen during the first break at the Adelaide Oval.
"A year on we still have Hughesie in the back of our minds every time we walk out on to the field," said Smith.
"It's a tough time for his family and friends and we respect that. Hopefully, we can have a good week for Phillip."


There is only a couple of weeks to go before voters across the United Kingdom head back to the polls in the 2017 general election.

But with Brexit looming and a continuing stalemate at Stormont, what are the key electoral issues for people in Northern Ireland - where this will be the seventh poll in three years?
This election campaign is likely to have an even stronger focus than usual on whether unionism or nationalism is "winning".
The significant increase in the nationalist vote in the assembly election in March - when Sinn FÃ©in finished just one seat behind the DUP - means there is likely to be plenty of emphasis on the constitutional question.
Sinn FÃ©in want a referendum on Irish unity - though that has been ruled out by the British and Irish governments.
Unionists say it is important that voters send out a pro-union message to head off the demands for a border poll.
Brexit is a big part of the reason why constitutional issues have come to the fore again - it is a major issue for parties and voters.
Health, the economy and education will also be talking points, as they are throughout the UK - but there are some issues which are specific to Northern Ireland.
These include legal recognition for the Irish language and the operation of new agencies to investigate killings during the troubles - which are the matters that have proved to be sticking points in the talks to restore devolved government at Stormont.
The five largest parties in Northern Ireland and the British and Irish governments have been involved in negotiations to restore devolved government for a number of weeks.
Several deadlines have already been missed - and now the talks have been put on hold until after the general election.
The new deadline for an agreement is 29 June.
So, the parties will have a window of about three weeks after the poll to reach a deal.
At election time, parties in Northern Ireland tend to harden their positions on contentious issues in order to appeal to their core support base - so it is likely that a divisive campaign will not improve the prospects for restoring Stormont.
The Ulster Unionist Party has decided not to run in North Belfast, West Belfast or Foyle and the DUP has decided not to contest Fermanagh/South Tyrone.
But they have been unable to conclude a formal election pact. as they did in 2015.
The SDLP, Sinn Fein and the Green Party held discussions on the possibility of an "anti-Brexit pact" - but there was no deal reached there either.
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Northern Ireland is in an unprecedented administrative vacuum.
There are no Stormont ministers in place and the Westminster parliament has been dissolved.
Civil servants are running the Northern Ireland government departments, but they can not take any major decisions.
One online satirist has said that a sign should be put up at airports in Northern Ireland welcoming tourists to "the election capital of Europe".
Since 2014, there have been elections to councils, the European Parliament, the Stormont assembly (twice), the EU referendum, a general election, and now another Westminster poll is pending.
But the 65% turnout for the Stormont election in March showed voter fatigue had not put people off coming to the polls - in fact, it was the highest turnout figure in Northern Ireland for 16 years.
If - as unionist parties hope - pro-union voters turn out in higher numbers on 8 June to counter the nationalist surge which happened in March, overall turnout may be higher still.


Former Bath boss Mike Ford is set to be named first-team coach of three-time European champions Toulon.

Ford, who has worked as an assistant coach for both England and Ireland, is set to start his new job on Monday.
It is understood the 50-year-old will be responsible for shaping the team's attack, defence and overall gameplan.
Ford led Bath to the Premiership final in 2015, but was sacked by the club at the end of last season following a disappointing campaign.
Former England boss Stuart Lancaster was previously linked with a coaching role at Toulon.


A driver who careered between lanes of the M25 at up to 90 miles an hour while being pursued by police has admitted dangerous driving.

The pursuit, between junctions six and 10 in Surrey, took place as commuters drove to work on 11 April.
Jonathan Lewis, 44, of Long Walk, Epsom, admitted one charge of dangerous driving and one count of having no insurance at Guildford Crown Court.
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 10 June.
Lewis was chased by two police vehicles after his Peugeot was involved in a crash with another car on the A25 at Oxted.
Officers pursued him along the M25 towards Heathrow before he was stopped on the A3.


Police officers in England and Wales are to get specialist advice on how to spot patterns of domestic abuse.

The new College of Policing guidance is designed to help officers prosecute without relying on victims' evidence.
It also advises senior officers about the need for specialist staff to deal with cases of abuse and ensure victims receive the best possible support.
David Tucker, from the college, said a change was needed within policing in attitudes towards domestic abuse.
The College of Policing guidance focuses on abusive relationship dynamics.
A new domestic abuse offence of "coercive and controlling behaviour" within relationships is expected to come into force later this year, after it was unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May last year.
This type of behaviour can include the abuser preventing their victim from having friendships or hobbies, refusing them access to money and determining many aspects of their everyday life.
The college is releasing a "toolkit" for officers who are first at the scene of an incident, as well as checklists for call handlers and counter staff in police stations for when they are contacted about domestic abuse.
Mr Tucker, head of the college's crime and criminal justice faculty, said: "Our research indicated the need for a culture change within policing attitudes towards domestic abuse.
"Sometimes police cannot understand why a victim would stay in an abusive relationship.
"There are dozens of reasons why victims feel unable to leave or support prosecution.
"It is the responsibility of the perpetrator to stop the abuse and the responsibility of the police to bring the perpetrator to justice - the victim is not responsible for either."
He said police needed to investigate domestic abuse "pro-actively" and should be "properly trained".
Polly Neale, chief executive of the charity Women's Aid, said it was "vital" that police officers understood coercive control to help them identify victims.
Diana Barran, from the charity SafeLives, said the new guidance was "a huge step forward in helping police to understand the complex nature of domestic abuse and - in particular - coercive control".


The International Olympic Committee should be helping to compensate child victims of police violence at Rio 2016, say children's rights groups.

"Indiscriminate use of force" was used by the police in the run-up to the Olympic Games in August, according to one of the organisations.
In a report handed to the IOC, Terre des Hommes details a 103% increase in police killings compared to 2015.
The IOC is considering recommendations made in the report.
The Rio Games saw 85,000 police staff employed around the city - double the number used at London 2012 - and it led to 90% of tourists rating security as "good" or "excellent".
However, the report - Breaking Records - found evidence of a process of "cleaning" the streets of homeless children, as well as numerous effects resulting from the eviction of 22,000 families between 2009 and 2015 to clear space for the Games.
"Our research reveals human rights violations of youth and children in Rio, ranging from police killings, harsh police repression of protests and an alarming increase of police violence against adolescents in street situation," said Andrea Florence, author of the report.
Renata Neder of Amnesty International Brazil said: "The Olympics were a missed opportunity for public security in Rio de Janeiro.
"We documented a number of violations by security forces, especially a significant increase in the number of people killed by the police and a violent repression of protests."
Specific findings in the report include:
Terre des Hommes called on the IOC to implement measures for future Olympic Games, such as including obligations to comply with international children's rights standards in the host city contract for 2024.
It wants the IOC to communicate with the Rio 2016 local organising committee and Brazilian authorities to ensure they have taken "all appropriate measures related to violations of child rights".
This includes ensuring victims have access to legal advice and that "individual cases are duly investigated, with access to remedy and compensation".
"We call upon the IOC to put in place all measures necessary to avoid repeating the same pattern of violations we have seen in Rio," said Florence.
"Only then will the Games will have a chance to create a better world for generations to come."
The IOC cited a "number of instances" relating to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, where allegations were followed up with the local authorities.
An IOC statement to BBC Sport added: "Where cases are identified - and clearly related to the staging of the Olympic Games - the IOC has a long-standing commitment to follow-up on those issues.
"The IOC can only act on issues that are directly linked to the organisation of the Olympic Games."


Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova will be released from hospital on Friday after a knife attack left her needing surgery on her left hand.

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Kvitova will miss at least six months of tennis after Tuesday's attack by an intruder at her home in Prostejov.
The Czech, 26, faces 14 days of bed rest and a slow rehabilitation process after she had an operation to repair tendons and nerves in her playing hand.
The "best-case scenario" sees her on the practice court after six months.
Kvitova said on Tuesday she was "shaken" and "fortunate to be alive".
She will speak publicly for the first time on Friday following her release from hospital.


The UK government will buy nine new marine patrol planes from Boeing in a decade-long deal worth £3bn.

The Ministry of Defence's deal for the submarine-hunting P-8A Poseidon aircraft also covers training, maintenance and support.
Boeing will build a new £100m facility for the planes at RAF Lossiemouth in Moray.
The US company will also deliver 50 Apache AH-64E attack helicopters to the British Army.
Boeing expects to create about 2,000 new UK jobs in the coming years by expanding its maintenance and support operations for both military and commercial customers in Europe.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced the P-8A deal on Monday at the start of the Farnborough Airshow.
He said it showed that the UK was open for business despite the referendum vote to leave the EU.
"Whatever uncertainties our country faces, I want the message to go out loud and clear: the UK will continue to lead the world in both civil and defence aerospace," Mr Cameron said.
Take off for the Farnborough Airshow
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The P-8A planes will fill a gap in the UK's defence capabilities that has existed since 2010 when the Nimrod was retired.
"Boeing is committed to the UK government's prosperity agenda and we share the goals of enhanced economic growth that the prime minister has set out to us," said Dennis Muilenburg, its chief executive.
Boeing has doubled its UK workforce and more than doubled its annual spending with the UK supply chain over the last five years to more than 2,000 people and £1.8bn respectively in 2015.
Separately, the UK government announced a further £365m worth of aerospace research and development, to be jointly funded with industry.
The Farnborough show is expected to see a crop of aircraft orders announced, although not as many as the record haul of £204bn at the last event in 2014.
Nevertheless, the long-term prospects for the industry are positive, Boeing said.
Also on Monday, the company unveiled its latest annual outlook for demand for civil aircraft. Boeing predicted that huge growth in air travel over the next 20 years will mean demand for more than 39,600 new aircraft.
The company said the biggest growth would come from Asia, as airlines and fleet operators expand and replace aircraft.
The increase marks a 4.1% rise on Boeing's forecast in 2015, with the aircraft valued at $5.9tn (£4.6tn).
Passenger traffic will grow 4.8% a year over the next two decades, Boeing said.
"Despite recent events that have impacted the financial markets, the aviation sector will continue to see long-term growth, with the commercial fleet doubling in size," said Randy Tinseth, vice-president of marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
In an industry that needs long-term planning and investment, Boeing's annual Current Market Outlook, launched on Monday at Farnborough, is regarded as one of the most comprehensive analysis of industry trends.
Boeing said the strongest growth would come from Asia, with demand for 15,130 new aircraft, followed by North America, with 8,330 aircraft. Europe is third, with a demand for 7,570 aircraft.
As well as growth in air travel, demand will also be driven by airlines' need for more fuel-efficient and environment-friendly aircraft.
Boeing said the most popular market segment would continue to be for single-aisle - or narrow-body - aircraft, which are the workhorses of the industry. The US manufacturer predicted that more than 28,000 single-aisle aircraft would be needed over the next two decades.
"Airplanes that size already account for 76% of the current single-aisle global backlog, and our products have the clear advantage in that space," said Mr Tinseth.
A report published last week by Alix Partners, a global advisory firm, estimated that Boeing and rival Airbus already had a 13,400-order backlog stretching years ahead, fuelled by demand for narrow-body aircraft.
Boeing and Airbus have been ramping up production of their 737 and A320 families of aircraft to meet the single-aisle demand, and have new products in preparation that they hope will win orders at this week's Farnborough show.
Meanwhile, other manufacturers, including Canada's Bombardier, are trying to chip away at the bottom end of the single-aisle segment.
Demand for larger aircraft, the wide-body segment, will be for 9,100 aircraft, with airlines forecast to step up fleet replacements between 2021-2028, Boeing said.
With cargo traffic forecast to grow at 4.2% a year, Boeing forecast a need for 930 new freighters and 1,440 converted freighters over the next 20 years.


A woman who recently died in northern Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola.

It comes as a setback to the country's effort to eradicate the deadly disease.
Sierra Leone was celebrating last week when it discharged its last known Ebola patient from hospital.
News of the new case means the country is no longer Ebola-free. High-risk contacts of the woman have been identified, isolated and will now be watched for symptoms.
The National Ebola Response Centre is assessing whether to isolate the whole village of Sella in the Kambia district where the woman, who was in her mid-60s, died.
The end of the outbreak will only be declared six weeks after the last Ebola patient either dies or tests negative for the virus.
At the height of the outbreak, Sierra Leone was reporting more than 500 new cases a week.
Meanwhile, in Guinea there were three confirmed cases in the week up to 23 August.
The last known Ebola case in Liberia was discharged on 23 July.


Re-elected Fifa president Sepp Blatter has sought to downplay the US criminal proceedings launched against officials of world football's governing body.

Seven officials and associates were arrested in Zurich earlier this week, as Fifa gathered for its congress.
Mr Blatter, 79, described the issue as "infractions" involving a marketing company operating in the Americas.
He is not named in the indictment, and denies having anything to do with an alleged $10m (Â£6.5m) bribe.
Asked by a reporter at a news conference whether he authorised the payment allegedly relating to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he said: "Definitely, that's not me."
And he again questioned the timing of the US prosecutors, saying his organisation "could have been contacted at another time" rather than just before its congress assembled.
"I don't see how Fifa should have been directly affected by this," he said.
Mr Blatter beat Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein of Jordan in Friday's election, and is starting his fifth four-year term as president.
Analysis: Alex Capstick, BBC Sport, Zurich
It was almost business as usual for Sepp Blatter after defying the worst crisis in Fifa's history to win a fifth term as its president.
Addressing the international press for the first time since the latest scandal flared up in such dramatic fashion, he was calm and assured as he refused to accept that he was responsible for the culture of corruption which has damaged Fifa's reputation.
Convincing the sponsors has become a top priority, but with further indictments from the US investigation a distinct possibility, and the ongoing probe in Switzerland into the allocation of the 2018 and the 2022 World Cups, his problems are far from over.
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Fifa scandal 'a disaster' for sponsors
Mr Blatter insisted that Fifa could move on from the crisis with him at the helm.
"It's no longer a storm, it's less strong at the moment," he said, adding that 132 nations had expressed confidence in him in the presidential vote. "I will continue to struggle and fight for good things."
In a sideswipe at European football's governing body Uefa, he criticised the body for not setting up an ethics committee along the lines of Fifa's own, to "set an example" to other, less wealthy and influential regional confederations.
Uefa's president Michel Platini had urged Mr Blatter to step down ahead of Friday's presidential vote, and Uefa strongly backed his rival for the post.
Prince Ali forced a second round of voting but then withdrew. Mr Blatter won 133 to Prince Ali's 73 in the first round, just short of the 140 votes needed for an outright win.
Mr Blatter was widely supported in Africa and Asia, and his re-election was welcomed by the hosts of the next World Cup, Russia - with President Vladimir Putin sending Mr Blatter a telegram of congratulation on Saturday.
Earlier, speaking to Swiss TV station RTS, Mr Blatter condemned what he described as a "hate" campaign against Fifa by European footballing nations.
And he said he was "shocked" by the comments of US prosecutors following the arrests of the Fifa officials - one described the case as "the World Cup of fraud" and said that Fifa was being issued with a red card.
Mr Blatter said he suspected the arrests were an attempt to "interfere with the congress" at which he was re-elected. "I am not certain, but it doesn't smell good," he said.
He noted that the US had lost out in the bidding for the 2022 World Cup to Qatar while England, another major critic, had lost out to Russia for the right to hold the 2018 World Cup - and that the US was the "number-one sponsor" of the state of Jordan, Prince Ali's homeland.
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Fifa corruption claims: Key questions answered
The seven arrested officials are part of 14 indicted on charges of bribery, racketeering and money-laundering, involving tens of millions of dollars since 1991.
Ahead of Mr Blatter's comments on Saturday, US tax official Richard Weber told The New York Times he was "fairly confident that we will have another round of indictments".
Meanwhile, Swiss authorities have launched a separate criminal investigation into the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments to Russia and Qatar.
European football associations will meet at next week's Champions League final in Berlin to discuss their next move.
Europe's seat at Saturday's meeting of Fifa's powerful executive committee was empty, as newly appointed representative David Gill confirmed he would not take up his post following Mr Blatter's re-election.
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Cancer patients who had to travel to England for specialist radiotherapy can now get their treatment in Wales after a £4.8m investment.

The money will pay for a second stereotactic body radiotherapy treatment (SBRT) machine at Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff.
The machine targets tumours, but causes less damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
The funding will allow the hospital to offer twice as many people SBRT.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said there had been an 8% increase in the number of courses of radiotherapy given at the centre in the past two years and a 10% rise in the number of attendances for treatment.
He said the new machine, which replaces an older model, would help the centre meet this demand and would see fewer people having to travel to Sheffield for treatment.


US actor Harrison Ford has been injured in a small plane crash in Los Angeles.

The 72-year-old star of the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films reported engine failure and crash-landed his vintage plane on a Venice golf course.
He was breathing and alert when medics arrived and took him to hospital in a "fair to moderate" condition, a fire department spokesman said.
His son Ben, a chef in Los Angeles, later tweeted from the hospital: "Dad is OK. Battered but OK!
His publicist said: "The injuries sustained are not life threatening, and he is expected to make a full recovery,"
The nature of Ford's injuries have not been disclosed but website TMZ, which first reported the story, said he suffered "multiple gashes to his head".
Shortly after take-off from Santa Monica Airport, he said he was having engine failure with his 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR and was making an "immediate return".
He was unable to reach the runway and landed on the Penmar Golf Course, where onlookers pulled him from the plane fearing it could explode.
Officials said the plane had been flying at about 3,000 feet (900m) and hit a tree on the way down.
"It just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something," Jeff Kuprycz, who was playing golf told the Associated Press news agency. "He ended up crashing around the eighth hole."
Christian Fry of the Santa Monica Airport Association said it was "an absolutely beautifully executed emergency landing by an unbelievably well-trained pilot".
Film producer Ryan Kavanaugh, who also witnessed the accident from his office, told The Hollywood Reporter: "He literally had five seconds, and 99% of pilots would have turned around to go back to the runway and would have crashed."
"Harrison did what the best pilots in the world would do," he continued. "He made the correct turn that the plane was designed for with an engine out."
After crash-landing, Ford was initially treated by doctors who happened to be at the golf course.
Later this year, Ford is reprising his role of Han Solo in the latest addition to the Star Wars franchise, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
He broke his leg in June last year on set at Pinewood Studios while filming a scene involving a door on the Millennium Falcon spaceship.
Ford took up flying when he was in his 50s and is also trained to fly helicopters.
In 1999, Ford crash-landed his helicopter during a training flight in Los Angeles but both he and the instructor were unhurt.
A year later a plane he was flying had to make an emergency landing in Nebraska. Again he and his passenger escaped unhurt.


BBC News reaches about 40 million adults in the UK every week - its international services are consumed by an additional 239 million adults around the world.

The department is the largest in the BBC in terms of staff, with more than 8,500 people around the UK and the rest of the world.
BBC News incorporates network news (the newsroom, news programmes such as Newsnight and Newsbeat, political programmes such as the Daily Politics, and the weather team), English Regions and Global News.
Material is brought into the BBC by its newsgathering staff, one of the largest operations of its kind in the world, with more than 40 international bureaux and seven in the UK.
It is transmitted to audiences on an increasingly diverse range of platforms including tablet computers and mobile phones.
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It is tucked behind the original Art Deco building that was opened as the BBC's first purpose-built headquarters in 1932.
NBH is occupied by 3,000 journalists and production staff in the news division. At the heart of the building, occupying the basement and ground floors, is the multimedia newsroom, the biggest in Europe, which brings together all the BBC's network and global news production for the first time.
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The acting head of Samsung Group has gone on trial in South Korea for his alleged role in a corruption scandal that led to the ousting of the president.

Lee Jae-yong denies charges of embezzlement and perjury.
Prosecutors say he gave 43bn Korean won ($38m; Â£30m) to President Park Guen-hye's friend for political favours.
Ms Park is suspected of colluding with Choi Soon-sil to get conglomerates to donate to Ms Choi's foundations.
Ms Park was arrested last week, after being impeached, and sent to a detention centre, although she has not yet been formally charged.
Mr Lee, who appeared in court in handcuffs, has denied the bribery allegations, saying Samsung was coerced into handing over the funds.
Another four Samsung executives have also appeared in court in connection with the scandal. They also deny the accusations.
- Grandson of Samsung founder  Lee Byung-chul, son of current chairman Lee Kun-hee.
- Also known as Jay Y Lee, the 48-year-old has spent his entire career in the company.
- Is vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and was nominated to join the firm's board in October 2016.
- Despite his arrest, still widely expected to take overall control of Samsung.
- Critics say his rise through Samsung has been due to his birth, not his business experience.
Mr Lee's case is "one of the most deep-rooted and typical cases involving unhealthy relations between politicians and businessmen," said Special Prosecutor Park Young-Soo in his opening statement in Seoul's Central District Court.
Mr Lee, the 48-year-old vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, has been the parent company Samsung Group's de facto head since his father Lee Kun-hee suffered a heart attack in 2014.
He was arrested in February.
On Friday, the chairman of the powerful Lotte conglomerate, Shin Dong-bin, was also being questioned by prosecutors in connection with the widening corruption probe.
They are investigating whether donations given by Lotte to foundations allegedly controlled by Ms Choi were bribes connected to the firm's bid for a lucrative duty-free business.
There are hopes that whoever replaces Ms Park will push for real reform in the biggest conglomerates, known as chaebols. But how realistic are those reforms in a country where the top 10 chaebols own more than a quarter of all business assets?
Samsung's sales alone make up a fifth of South Korea's gross domestic product.
In the run-up to presidential elections in May, candidates have made chaebol reform a major pillar of their campaign promises.
But unpicking the complex and powerful hold these family-run firms have over the South Korean economy will take more than just rhetoric.
Samsung quarterly forecast beats estimates


The mother of a man who was shot dead by police in Cambridgeshire has said she hopes he is now "at peace".

Richard Davies, 41, was killed when officers were called to a house in Duck Lane, St Neots, on Wednesday evening.
A post-mortem examination carried out on Friday revealed he died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
His mother Gill Davies said in a Facebook post he was "loved and respected" and asked people not to speculate about his death.
"Have muddled through another day with support from my friends and family," she wrote on the social media site on Saturday.
"May our dear son Richard be at peace now and please God bring peace to all the family."
In an earlier post, she thanked people for their support following the loss of her son, who had three children and worked at nearby engineering firm Bosch Rexroth.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating the shooting after Cambridgeshire Police referred the case to them.
The watchdog said a firearm and two knives were found inside the Duck Lane house, and this would form part of its inquiry.
IPCC associate commissioner Guido Liguori said: "I would like to send my condolences to Mr Davies' family and friends at this difficult time.
"It is essential when the police use lethal force that there is a thorough and independent investigation of that decision."


A 35-year-old man murdered in a supermarket car park in County Down was fatally shot while in front of his son, police have said.

The PSNI said "the young boy witnessed everything and will undoubtedly carry that memory for the rest of his life".
The man was attacked in a Sainsbury's car park in the Balloo Link area of Bangor at about 15:00 BST on Sunday.
Police said it happened "in broad daylight in front of families who were out enjoying the bank holiday weekend".
Supt Brian Kee described it as a "brutal, senseless and horrendous killing".
"The recklessness of this murder is all too evident.
"It is beyond belief that the gunman shot the victim when he was out with his son.
"We are very lucky that we are not also dealing with the death of this child today."
Supt Kee added: "The gunman also showed total disregard for the safety of the public, including other children, who were in the car park at the time of the attack."
He appealed for anyone who witnessed the attack to contact the PSNI.
Ulster Unionist North Down MLA Alan Chambers said he arrived at the scene about 10 minutes after the shooting happened.
"There was a casualty on the ground, there was about six paramedics round the person working very, very hard with CPR and also administering fluids to him," he said.
"They worked on him for maybe 45 minutes, they put him then onto a trolley and moved him into an ambulance and worked on him in the ambulance for another 20 minutes and then the ambulance left the scene with a police escort."
He said everyone in the car park was shocked by what had happened.
"It's only afterwards that it will really hit people, it was such an ordinary Sunday afternoon," he said
"The car park was packed and it was a totally indiscriminate shooting, anybody in the vicinity at all could have fallen victim to a stray bullet."
He said he was told four to six shots were fired.
"Anybody walking past or driving past, and it is such a busy road, could have been caught up and that makes it all the more dastardly, the discharging of a lethal weapon in that area."
Stuart Kerr, a supermarket worker, said that there was "confusion" after the store was evacuated.
"They basically called over the intercom to have all the medical staff come to the front, and at that point we were wondering what was happening.
"Then two minutes later they called another announcement saying to evacuate the store, so we had to get the customers out, all the employees out.
"We were out the front and there was confusion really. No one knew what was happening or what had happened."
A shopper, who was in the supermarket at the time of the shooting, told the BBC they were evacuated "right into the middle of the scene".
"A security man came on the tannoy and said for everyone to vacate the premises, to get out as there was an emergency," said the shopper, who did not want to give their name.
"The man who was shot was right outside lying on the ground.
"The whole shop was evacuated right into the middle of the scene, instead of keeping us inside.
"There were three or four people treating him. Everybody saw it, there were kids, wee kids, aged about four, five and six. The place was packed."
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire tweeted: "Deeply disturbed by news of the shooting in the Sainsbury's car park in Bangor. Brutal act of violence that has no place in Northern Ireland."


A Northern Ireland Executive budget that would reduce student numbers is "nonsensical", according to leading business organisation, the CBI.

Proposed cuts by the Department for Employment and Learning may mean 1,100 fewer university places from next year.
The CBI said: "The draft budget outcome, when set in those stark terms, is frankly nonsensical."
It said Northern Ireland must produce more skilled workers to continue to be attractive to overseas companies.
The Confederation of British Industry made its comments in its response to the Northern Ireland Executive's draft 2015-16 budget.
The CBI said financial allocations to the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL), the Department of Enterprise and Invest NI "must be reviewed and revised to support the transition to a higher-skilled economy".
It added: "We accept efficiencies can and must be made, but the scale and time frame of the proposed cuts are potentially hugely damaging to our economic prospects."
The Northern Ireland Executive agreed its draft budget in October, shaped by a reduction of around Â£200m in the block grant from the Treasury.
It is due to be finalised by next month.
The CBI also said the executive needed to examine ways to raise money.
Among its suggestions are re-introducing prescription charges, increasing rates and cutting back on concessionary travel on public transport.
It said such moves are necessary for Northern Ireland "to say it is living within its means".


Captain Steve Smith was frustrated by conditions at The Oval after Australia's Champions Trophy game against Bangladesh was abandoned.

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Chasing 183, Australia were 83-1 when rain arrived after 16 overs, four overs short of the minimum needed for a game.
It is Australia's second abandonment and they now need to beat England in order to reach the semi-finals.
"The groundsmen perhaps could have had more urgency, but I think they did the best job they could," said Smith.
"I was happy to keep playing through the rain. But the umpires are there to make a decision.
"There was a drinks break at the end of that over which probably didn't help. If the game had carried on perhaps they would have had a different opinion. But to be fair it was raining quite heavily."
Australia's first game against New Zealand at Edgbaston was also abandoned but, on that occasion, Smith said his side "got away with one".
Replying to New Zealand's 291, Australia had been reduced to 53-3 after nine overs when the bad weather arrived.


Farmers have been reacting to the news that smoking in the cabs of their tractors is an offence that could attract a fine of up to £1,000.

22 July 2015 Last updated at 19:59 BST
The Ulster Farmers' Union has said that the issuing of a penalty notice to one of its members in County Antrim is taking anti-smoking legislation too far.
BBC News NI's agriculture and environment correspondent Conor Macauley reports.


Ulster's Ruan Pienaar and Charles Piutau have been named in the Pro12's team of the season.

Munster lead the way with six players as Jaco Taute, Rory Scannell, Tyler Bleyendaal, Dave Kilcoyne, John Ryan and Billy Holland all included.
The pack includes Leinster pair Dan Leavy and Jack Conan plus Scarlets duo Ken Owens and James Davies.
Connacht's Tiernan O'Halloran, Glasgow wing Tommy Seymour and Edinburgh's Ben Toolis also make the Dream Team.
Pienaar earns recognition as he prepares to leave Ulster following seven years at the Irish province.
The IRFU refused Ulster's request to extend the South African's contract and the scrum-half is set to join Montpellier.
Journalists and broadcasters from across Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Italy chose the Pro12 Dream Team.
The Pro12's awards night takes place in Dublin on Sunday.
2016-17 Guinness Pro12 Dream Team
T O'Halloran (Connacht); T Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), J Taute (Munster), R Scannell (Munster), C Piutau (Ulster); T Bleyendaal (Munster), R Pienaar (Ulster); D Kilcoyne (Munster), K Owens (Scarlets), J Ryan (Munster); B Toolis (Edinburgh), B Holland (Munster); D Leavy (Leinster), J Davies (Scarlets), J Conan (Leinster)


Boris Johnson has said Britain could "prosper as never before" outside the European Union but was accused in an ITV debate of vying to be the next PM.

Nicola Sturgeon said he was "only interested in David Cameron's job" and Conservative Amber Rudd also attacked his reported leadership ambitions.
He said it was easier to concentrate on "personal stuff" and said the Leave side were offering "hope" over fear.
Immigration, the economy and NHS funding dominated the debate.
Mr Johnson drew much of the fire from politicians on the Remain side - Labour's Angela Eagle, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and his own Conservative colleague, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd.
He was repeatedly accused of eyeing David Cameron's job - the prime minister has said he will not seek a third term.
"I think you only care about one job and that's your next one," said Ms Eagle to Mr Johnson.
But Mr Johnson said he was backing the campaign to leave the EU because Mr Cameron had not secured changes in his EU renegotiation which would have allowed him to cut net migration below 100,000.
"There has got to be democratic consent for the scale of the flows that we are seeing." he said.
In her closing remarks, Ms Rudd described Mr Johnson as the  "life and soul of the party but not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening".
Mr Johnson responded by describing being in the EU as being locked in the back of a car, headed in the wrong direction "to a destination you wouldn't want to go".
By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
The "outers" were all on the same script.
The "remainers" all had one target - Boris Johnson, who was repeatedly accused, even by his Cabinet colleague Amber Rudd, of being more interested in his own ambition than in the referendum.
The central disputes were all rehearsed - the Out campaign was attacked for not spelling out a precise vision of how the economy would be affected if we leave the EU.
The remain camp was accused of filling voters with fear about what would happen. Migration was a constant theme.
Both sides, inevitably perhaps, claimed victory within minutes.
But while remain clearly tried to diminish the out camp's biggest figure, Boris Johnson, despite two hours of bad tempers, the dynamics of the campaign stay the same.
The former London mayor, alongside Labour's Gisela Stuart and Conservative Andrea Leadsom accused Remain of a "miserable" campaign and getting "personal" while avoiding the key issues.
Mr Johnson, for Leave urged voters to "believe in ourselves" and "take back control" while his Conservative colleague Amber Rudd - making the case to remain in the EU - said that "as a mother", she did not want to take the "risk" of leaving the EU with her children's future.
On immigration - Mrs Leadsom, for Leave, said people were "genuinely struggling with access to public services" and the Remain side had "no answer" to that.
Labour's Angela Eagle, for Remain, said there were no "simple solutions" to the issue but Nicola Sturgeon said "our economy would suffer if we pull up the drawbridge".
The answer to pressure on public services is to invest more in them, she added, blaming government cuts for some of the problems.
And Ms Rudd accused her Conservative colleague Mrs Leadsom of "scaremongering" with her tone over immigration, after she said the UK was "not even in control of our borders".
The debate heated up over the controversial claim by the Leave camp that the UK sends Â£350m a week to the EU - which critics point out does not include the UK's rebate. Ms Eagle pointed at the Leave campaigners, telling them to "get that lie off your bus" while claiming it was an "absolute whopper".
But Ms Leadsom, for Leave, said when people gave their salaries they did not deduct NI and tax and the rebate and EU subsidies were controlled by the EU: "Â£10bn a year goes to the EU which we never see again," she said.
The debate, moderated by ITV's Julie Etchingham, was held hours before the deadline for registering to vote and two weeks before polling day - 23 June.


Essential investment in the UK's energy system is still being deterred by policy uncertainty, a survey suggests.

Members of the Energy Institute say investing in nuclear and renewables is risky following unpredicted delays and changes in subsidies.
Their biggest fears are over carbon capture, a technology the PM said was vital, before he withdrew funding.
The government says it will reassure investors with a new plan in the autumn for clean, secure, affordable energy.
The Energy Institute is the industry's professional body. Its survey also indicates an expectation that if the UK were to vote to leave the European Union it would create problems for energy supplies, renewables, climate change and air quality.
It suggests members do not trust the UK or other countries to keep their promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to safeguard the climate.
The survey was completed by 438 energy professionals, academics and analysts who are members of the Institute.
When asked what were their biggest fears they cited "energy policy continuity" following a year of multiple unheralded changes in support of clean technologies.
The government offered what it called a "reset" of energy policies in November, planning to deliver a new wave of gas power stations, support low-carbon energy and promote a flexible electricity grid - but the announcement was criticised for leaving too much uncertainty for clean technologies.
"Plainly, the government's energy policy 'reset' has yet to reset confidence among professionals working in the energy sector," the Energy Institute said as it released its latest survey on Wednesday.
It says low oil prices are a further factor discouraging investment in energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies, as well as in UK oil and gas supply.
The Institute's members say that, despite the euphoria surrounding the Paris climate change agreement in December, they are sceptical countries will deliver their commitment to hold global temperature increases to well below 2C and to try to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C.
Most members do not expect emissions to be held at the level associated with a temperature rise of 2C. Even fewer believe this is likely than did last year before the Paris deal.
A majority think the UK will slip behind its carbon budgets for the coming years and fall significantly short of its goal of reducing emissions by 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
There is a particularly gloomy outlook on energy efficiency: professionals working in the sector say despite government promises to radically improve efficiency, its policies so far have had no effect.
This issue covers energy availability and environmental protections.
Prof Jim Skea, president of the Energy Institute, told BBC News: "The single biggest wish for people working in UK energy is stable government policy that helps them decide where to invest profitably.
"Renewable energy and capturing carbon - key to implementing the Paris climate agreement - are seen to have been particularly badly hit by policy changes over the last year."
A government spokesman told BBC News: "We are giving investors the certainty they need to come to the UK with our long-term plan for a secure, affordable and clean energy system fit for the 21st Century.
"We're doing this in a way that will meet our climate change commitments in the most cost-effective way, and have already reduced our emissions by over 30% since 1990."
Prof Skea also explained members' fears over the UK's EU referendum vote: "The overwhelming majority (by 4-1) of energy professionals foresee negative impacts on the UK energy system under Brexit.
"Our members have highlighted energy security, energy innovation and renewable energy development as particular areas of concern."
Those who want to leave the European Union say the UK could reduce energy prices if they were outside the bloc, and that other European countries would still want to sell their electricity to the UK after Brexit.
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England came from behind to deservedly defeat the world's top-ranked side New Zealand 26-12 in the opening Test of their three-match series in Hull.

Tries from Tohu Harris and Sam Moa put the Kiwis 10-0 ahead before scores from Josh Hodgson and Brett Ferres ensured the opening half finished 12-12.
England took control after the break with a penalty from Gareth Widdop and a converted Ferres try making it 20-12.
Skipper Sean O'Loughlin barged over late on as gutsy England took victory.
England's recent encounters with New Zealand have been a story of heartbreaking near misses.
They lost 16-14 in the Four Nations last year a week after a narrow 16-12 reverse against Australia.
And it was even more painful in 2013 when the Kiwis snatched a dramatic 20-18 World Cup semi-final victory over Steve McNamara's team at Wembley, with Shaun Johnson kicking the decisive goal with the last action of the match.
In fact, McNamara had won only one of nine meetings against the Kangaroos and the Kiwis going into Sunday's encounter.
But against a Kiwi side fielding an inexperienced half-back pairing of Peta Hiku and Tuimoala Lolohea but a strong pack, England recovered from a poor start to deservedly win at the KC Stadium.
"We wanted to start well, put in good performance, and this this is something for us to build on," said man of the match Ferres.
Harris could have been forgiven for feeling especially delighted when he ran towards the corner for the first try of the series.
The 23-year-old was in the original squad to travel to England compete in the 2013 World Cup, but missed out when Sonny Bill Williams had a change of heart and decided to compete in the tournament.
Harris abruptly found himself jettisoned and Williams, currently in the news after he gave away his union World Cup winner's medal to a young fan shortly after the All Blacks' triumph on Saturday, apologised to the unlucky Melbourne Storm man.
The forward's try came during a flat start to the Test by McNamara's team. They were also powerless to prevent Moa, back at the stadium where he used to play for Hull FC, charging over close to the posts as the away side opened up a 10-0 lead.
And there was a hint of fortune when England finally got on the board, with the ball striking Zak Hardaker's knee and looping up for Hodgson to burst across the line.
New Zealand seemed to possess more punch and cutting edge during a fairly scratchy opening 40 minutes - with Jesse Bromwich and Adam Blair ensuring their powerful pack were in the ascendancy.
Stephen Kearney's side appeared to be heading towards a potential 12-point advantage when Jordan Kahu crossed just after the half-hour mark after Roger Tuivasa-Sheck showed incredible speed to burst through the defensive line before passing to his team-mate.
However, that try was ruled out by the video referee for a supposed obstruction on George Williams during the build up. England immediately went down to the other end of the field and scored when Ferres collected a brilliant flat pass from Williams. A scoreline that could easily have been 18-6 was instead 12-12 at the break.
Sam Burgess might have had a tough time as part of England's disappointing rugby union World Cup campaign, but his younger brother Tom was immense as England took control in the second half.
Burgess made countless rampaging runs as England scored 14 unanswered points during the second half as England showed a desire and intensity largely absent in the opening 40 minutes.
"Tom Burgess was incredible," said McNamara afterwards. "I wouldn't say he was unstoppable but they found it very difficult to deal with him in attack, and defensively he was really strong as well."
Ferres spun over for his second try and O'Loughlin came off better after a meaty collision with Adam Blair as the Wigan man put the icing on the cake late on.
England coach Steve McNamara: "In the first half we put ourselves under a lot of pressure, we looked out of sorts. But we started to come back towards the back end of the half, that really set ourselves up for the second and we finished the game very strongly.
"I had to support the players' feelings at half-time. Physically we weren't in the game and we needed to change that. Thankfully we did.
"There is lots to work on for next week, both teams can perform a lot better than that. These are tough games though, and with only a six-day turnaround, recovery is the number one priority right now."
New Zealand coach Stephen Kearney: "In the second half we didn't execute what we wanted to. That was the disappointing thing, but England put a lot of pressure on us. They did a great job in defence.
"We've got plenty of improvement in us though. We had a couple of opportunities we didn't take as well as we could have done, but we move to next week.
"England were marvelous tonight, and we've got a really tough challenge ahead of us."
The two teams meet again next Saturday at the Olympic Stadium in London (14:30 GMT). Although there is a long tradition of international rugby league being played in London, it will be the first time that the venue for the 2012 Olympics has been used for a league fixture.
England: Zak Hardaker, Joe Burgess, John Bateman, Kallum Watkins, Ryan Hall, Gareth Widdop, George Williams, James Graham, Josh Hodgson, Chris Hill, Elliott Whitehead, Liam Farrell, Sean O'Loughlin (captain).
Replacements: James Roby, Thomas Burgess, Mike Cooper, Brett Ferres.
New Zealand: Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Jason Nightingale, Jordan Kahu, Dean Whare, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Peta Hiku, Tuimoala Lolohea, Jesse Bromwich, Issac Luke (co-captain), Sam Moa, Kevin Proctor, Tohu Harris, Adam Blair (co-captain).
Replacements: Kodi Nikorima, Martin Taupau, Ben Matulino, Sio Siua Takeiaho.
Referee: Ben Thaler


The price of oil has gone above $50 a barrel for the first time in 2016 as supply disruptions and increased global demand continue to fuel a recovery.

Benchmark Brent crude hit $50.22 per barrel at one stage on Thursday, its highest level since early November.
The rise followed US data showing that oil inventories had fallen after supply disruptions due to fires in Canada.
Brent crude has now risen 80% since it hit 13-year lows of below $28 a barrel at the start of the year.
US crude oil inventories fell by 4.2 million barrels to 537.1 million barrels in the week to May 20, according to US Department of Energy data.
Canada is the biggest supplier to the US and wildfires in the western provinces have reduced supplies by about a million barrels per day.
Talks in recent months between Opec and Russia about freezing oil production had already encouraged a price rise.
Short-term disruptions to oil supplies have also lifted the price, offsetting higher production from Iran and Saudi Arabia.
As well as the disruption to key oil production facilities in Canada, attacks by militant groups continue to restrict oil pipelines in Nigeria.
Demand has also been better than expected from major economies such as China, India and Russia.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said: "We do now appear to be seeing the effects that the decline in US output is having, and while supplies remain elevated, the glut does now appear to be diminishing."
Against this backdrop, analysts are starting to raise their forecasts.
Goldman Sachs said earlier this month that it now expected oil prices to consistently hit $50 a barrel in the second half of 2016 and $60 by the end of 2017.
The US bank said: "The oil market continues to deliver its share of surprises, with low prices driving disruptions in Nigeria, higher output in Iran and better demand.
"With each of these shifts significant in magnitude, the oil market has gone from nearing storage saturation to being in deficit much earlier than we expected."
In a sign of growing confidence, oil companies have started preparing for higher prices.
BP said last month it had budgeted for prices of at least between $50 and $55 a barrel in 2017.
And last month US oil producer Pioneer Natural Resources announced plans to add up to 10 new rigs when the oil price gets back up to $50.
Adam Laird, an investment manager at Hargreaves Lansdown, told the BBC: "This is an area that's been starved of resources and investment and that psychological barrier [of $50] could be enough to make some executives reassess."
However, Mr Laird cautioned that price volatility was likely to continue. "It's too early to say this is the beginning of the big rebound," he said.
Abhishek Deshpande, an oil markets analyst at Natixis, agreed and said: "We believe that the market is going up, but if it goes too quickly there will be auto-corrections."


China has announced new plans to control the use of coal to combat the dangerous levels of air pollution in its major cities.

It will ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants in areas around Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
The aim is to use more natural gas and nuclear power and to close down some of the worst offending factories .
The State Council said pollution was harming people's health and affecting social harmony.
A vast toxic cloud of pollutants settled over Beijing and large parts of north China last winter in one of the country's most prolonged environmental crises.
The anger and alarm it caused appears to have concentrated the minds of top leaders, who have tended to focus more on the need for rapid growth than for clean air.
The new initiative identifies the biggest offender as coal, which fires more than two-thirds of China's power plants.
The targets being set could reduce that capacity by some 5% over the next four years and replace it with cleaner fuels.
The number is considered ambitious because China's voracious demand for more power is still growing rapidly each year.
The new measures are targeted at the country's largest cities, where smoggy skies and high pollution alerts are visible to a rising and more assertive middle class, and to the outside world.
The plan calls for a reduction of about a quarter in the dangerous fine particles that blanket Beijing.
Environmental groups have applauded the ambition of the targets. But some environmental groups have expressed doubts about how successfully they will be implemented.
Pollution levels continue to rise in less prosperous inland cities as well, but they appear to be less of priority for the leadership in Beijing.


A woman whose husband claims she was the victim of a so-called honour killing in Pakistan was strangled, police say.

Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died last month in Northern Punjab.
Deputy Inspector General Abu Bakr Khuda Bux revealed to the BBC how she died, following the launch of a murder inquiry based on information they got from her husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazam.
No arrests have been made in the case, he confirmed.
However, Ms Shahid's father Mohammad and a cousin known as Mobeen have both been interviewed by officers, though neither have been detained.
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Her first husband Choudhry Shakeel, who was previously reported to be on the run, is in Pakistan on pre-arrest bail order, which means police know his whereabouts, but cannot arrest, or demand to interview him, until the order expires on Saturday.
Pakistani daily The News revealed the forensic report, released earlier, confirmed Ms Shahid had been murdered and her death had not been from natural causes.
The paper said the report stated clearly her death was caused by suffocation, having been physically stopped from breathing.
Post-mortem tests stated her death was as a result of strangulation.
The report was handed to the chief minister's investigating committee, it said.
Ms Shahid's family had initially claimed she had died of a heart attack.
Syed Mukhtar Kazam believes his wife, who had gone to Pakistan to visit relatives, was killed because her family disapproved of their marriage.
He said that before she left, her family had threatened her life.


An Argentina international has apologised after he made a slant-eyed pose in promotional pictures for his Chinese football club.

Ezequiel Lavezzi was photographed pulling the corner of his eyes in pictures taken for the Chinese Super League side Hebei China Fortune.
The club has since said they were meant to be "light-hearted" and "wacky".
But instead they have caused huge offence in China, with people accusing him of racism.
"This is an extremely abominable gesture that discriminates against Chinese people. Get him out of here!" one person wrote on social media platform Weibo.
In a statement released on Sunday, Lavezzi said he had "no intention of insulting the Chinese people", and was simply making funny faces at the request of the photographer.
"I'm very happy to be here as part of the Hebei club," he added. "I have had great time here with my team mates and it has been a great journey. Every Chinese person around me is friendly and I love my life here.
"I deeply apologise if this photo has offended the Chinese public and fans. I will be more careful in the future."
The club has also apologised.
Lavezzi, 32, moved to the Chinese side last year from Paris St -Germain. The two-year deal was reported to be worth Â£23.5m ($30.3m).


A heavily-redacted report into the killing of Aberdeen schoolboy Bailey Gwynne has been published.

Bailey, 16, was stabbed during a fight with a fellow pupil at Cults Academy.
The schoolboy's killer is serving nine years for culpable homicide.
The Aberdeen Chief Officers Group said in a statement: "We understand the interest in the content of the review but we are bound by data protection laws and respect the wishes of the individuals and families involved."
A review in October found his death was "potentially avoidable".
The review, conducted by child welfare professional Andrew Lowe, made several recommendations.
The full report was kept private at the time.
Large parts of the 67-page report, released on Monday afternoon, were redacted.
The Chief Officers Group stated: "The review contains a great deal of sensitive, confidential and legally restricted information.
"We committed to seeking the permissions required to publish that information and have worked extensively to complete that process.
"In October the Chief Officers Group stated its determination to implement the recommendations contained within Andrew Lowe's review and that implementation is progressing well.
"As a group we are going beyond the recommendations and have a comprehensive plan in place, including the roll-out of the anti-weapon strategy in our schools."
The statement added: "The aim of the independent review was to provide assurance to our organisations and to the public that all circumstances in relation to Bailey's death have been examined and to make appropriate recommendations which can be applied for future practice.
"The conclusions reached and the recommendations have been shared and acted upon."
A strategy aimed at preventing knives and weapons getting into Aberdeen schools was approved last month.
Staff will be provided with clarity on the recording of incidents in schools, pupil searches and when and how to confiscate weapons, including knives.
Other actions approved by the council include providing professional learning opportunities to teachers in order that they can deliver anti-weapon and knife-crime lessons.


A man has been charged following the deaths of two brothers in an explosion at an industrial unit.

Three men were injured in the blast at the premises on Plumpton Road in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, last October.
Two of them, Jashar Lamallari, 37, and Ardian Lamallari, 42, both from Wood Green, London, later died in hospital.
Simon Thomerson, 40, from Southerland Avenue in Maida Vale, London, has been charged with two counts of manslaughter by gross negligence.
He also faces charges of breaching health and safety laws.
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The explosion happened at about at 16:40 BST on 3 October.
At the time Hertfordshire Police said the unit was unoccupied, but it was believed the men had been carrying out some work on the building.
Mr Thomerson was released on bail and will appear before magistrates in St Albans on 16 August.


Portadown are to appeal a £10,000 fine and signing ban after they were found guilty of two offences in relation to undisclosed payments to players.

The Irish FA has banned the club from signing players on a new professional contract until 1 June, 2017.
Portadown said it was appealing "on the grounds that the evidence we supplied was sufficient to show that no undisclosed payments were made".
"Further evidence to support this stance will be supplied."
The IFA's Disciplinary Committee ruled that £5,000 should be payable within 14 days and £5,000 suspended until 1 June, 2017.
The club avoided a points deduction or automatic demotion from the top flight.
A statement released by the IFA indicated that "in light of the evidence presented, the committee found two matters proven".
Portadown have endured a troubled season, with long-standing manager Ronnie McFall stepping down from his position last month after 29 years in charge.
The club lie in a lowly ninth place in the Premiership, just five points above basement side Warrenpoint Town and four points ahead of Carrick Rangers, who are in the relegation play-off spot.


The mobile operators Vodafone and EE are failing on the basics of customer service, according to the consumer group Which?

Of the big firms, Vodafone and EE scored the lowest in a survey which compared all the UK's mobile suppliers.
They scored particularly poorly when it came to ease of contact, and value for money.
Vodafone promised improvements over the coming months. EE said it was transforming its customer service.
"Our latest survey once again shows that the major mobile providers are still failing on the basics of customer service," said Alex Neill, director of campaigns and communications.
"Telecoms are an essential part of modern life and so providers need to start delivering for their customers," she said.
Both companies came bottom in a similar survey a year ago.
The regulator Ofcom revealed last month that Vodafone had also been the subject of a big rise in customer complaints.
For the second year in a row, the online provider Giffgaff, which does not have any shops or call centres, came top of the table.
Vodafone apologised, and said it was working hard to improve the customer experience.
"Due to new processes we have put into place, helped by significant additional call centre resources, we believe that customers will see improvements over the coming months," a spokesperson told the BBC.
EE said it was committed to providing a better customer experience.
"We've returned over a thousand service jobs to the UK, and have cut our customer complaints in half over the last year to outperform the industry average," an EE spokesperson said.
The UK's mobile phone industry is in the middle of big corporate changes. EE is in the process of being taken over by BT.
Three is also bidding to merge with O2 - a deal which is subject to approval by the European Commission.
Earlier this week the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the merger could cause "serious damage" to UK consumers, as it would leave only three mobile networks.


England forward Sam Burgess says he was "extremely lucky" to avoid a serious neck injury after being carried off and taken to hospital during South Sydney's loss to St George Illawarra on Sunday.

The 27-year-old had a clash of heads with fellow Englishman Mike Cooper.
He lay prone on the pitch for several minutes, while receiving medical care, before being taken off on a stretcher.
Burgess later wrote: "Initial scan results are positive.... feeling extremely lucky tonight."
He was playing his third game since returning to rugby league after a nine-month stint in union with Bath and England.
He lowered his head as he ran with the ball but immediately fell to the ground after the collision.
The Rabbitohs were trailing 8-6 in the NRL fixture at the time and no more points were scored following the incident in the 58th minute.


Wales lock Luke Charteris could be a doubt for the summer fixtures against England and New Zealand because of family and club commitments.

His wife is due to give birth around the end of May.
"The more important thing is that my wife is due another baby, so that will be my first priority," Charteris told BBC Wales Sport.
"We'll see how that goes, hopefully everything goes well there and then I can make a decision after that."
The child is due to be born in France, where 33 year-old Charteris is in the final months of his contract with Paris side Racing 92 before moving to Bath.
Wales are due to face England at Twickenham on 29 May, before a three-Test tour of New Zealand, also including a fixture against Waikato Chiefs.
The French Top 14 final will not be played until 24 June, only hours before the final Test in New Zealand, and Racing are strong contenders for the title.
"I don't know, I'll cross that bridge when we get there," said Charteris when asked about his Wales availability.
"I want to be doing as well as we can with Racing and put ourselves in a position to win some silverware, and see what happens down the line. The honest answer is I'm not really sure."
Charteris has made three starts and one replacement appearance during the 2016 Six Nations, taking his caps total to 66.
"It's a big end of the season for a lot of boys who were in the World Cup, so it's been a long year," admitted Charteris.
"We'll go back to our clubs now, some will have a bit of rest, some have got big games coming up.
"We look forward to getting back together in a few months time and it's a great way to finish the season off."


Regulators have approved a long-awaited plan to connect the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges.

The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect will allow investors to trade across the border for the first time and is set to begin on 17 November.
It means global investors will now have access to Chinese stocks from Hong Kong, potentially resulting in $3.8bn (Â£2.3bn) worth of trades a day.
The system was expected to begin in October, but was delayed last month.
The tie up is seen as a key milestone in the capital market liberalisation of China - the world's second largest economy - where authorities keep a strong grip on the yuan currency.
Chinese regulators finally gave their approval on Monday.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the territory's de-facto central bank, issued a statement saying it was "pleased" with the approval after "intensive discussions and preparations."
"The linking of the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets will also propel the development of offshore renminbi (yuan) business in Hong Kong to new heights," it said.


Wout Poels triumphed in Sunday's Liege-Bastogne-Liege to secure a first victory for Team Sky in one of cycling's one-day Classics.

Dutchman Poels, 28, prevailed in a sprint at the end of a gruelling 154-mile race held in wintry conditions.
Poels had to fend off a late challenge from Switzerland's Michael Albasini, with Portugal's Rui Costa in third.
"To be able to win the first 'Monument' for the team is really special," said Poels. "It's a huge win for the team."
The Liege-Bastogne-Liege is the oldest of cycling's 'Monument' one-day races, a group that includes the Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and Giro di Lombardia.
Sunday's race marked its 102nd edition and provided Poels with the biggest win of his career
"It's unbelievable," he added on Team Sky's website. "I'm really happy and I still can't believe I won Liege-Bastogne-Liege. It's a really nice victory that's for sure.
"I think everyone was really tired from the cold, rain, snow and everything else the weather threw at us today. I did a good sprint and luckily it was enough."
Final result: Liege-Bastogne-Liege:
1.  Wout Poels (Ned/Team Sky) 6:24:29"
2.  Michael Albasini (Swi/Orica) Same time
3.  Rui Costa (Por/Lampre)
4.  Samuel Sanchez (Spa/BMC Racing) +4"
5.  Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) +9"
6.  Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) +11"
7.  Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Tinkoff) +12"
8.  Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa/ Katusha)
9.  Bauke Mollema (Ned/Trek)
10. Diego Rosa (Ita/Astana)
Selected others:
16. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar)
44. Ben Swift (GB/Team Sky) +1:56"
112. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +10:31"


Thousands of women working at Scotland's largest local authority have secured an equal pay victory in court.

The Court of Session has ruled that women at Glasgow City council have been excluded from bonuses for years.
About 6,000 female workers at the council are understood to be affected, with many claims dating back to 2006.
Council leader Susan Aitken said the right thing for the authority to do now would be to have "open discussions" with the affected workers.
The court said the council had discriminated against women through the introduction of payment protections which upheld male colleagues' earnings.
The protection was introduced following the initial wave of equal pay awards.
Glasgow City Council had appealed against a ruling by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in March 2016 that it had continued to discriminate against women through the introduction of payment protections for male employees.
But the Court of Session rejected the appeal.
GMB Scotland Secretary Gary Smith said: "After years of legal wrangling by Glasgow City Council, this morning's judgment paves the way for thousands of low-paid women to claim justice.
"Times have been tough for these women who have had to endure this discrimination against a decade of real terms wage cuts across Scottish local government as a result of stifling austerity."
Mr Smith called on the council's new SNP-led administration to resolve the claims.
Most of those claiming are carers, caterers and cleaners and are among the lowest-paid council employees, unions say.
The court has also been asked to consider whether the current council pay system is a valid pay scheme.
Mike Kirby, Scottish secretary for the Unison union, said: "The way Glasgow rates and pays workers has been the source of conflict and division for 10 years.
"These women have already waited long enough to receive the pay they have worked hard for and deserve. It's time for Glasgow City Council to do the right thing and pay up on equal pay."
A spokesman for the council said it had implemented a new pay and benefits structure designed to ensure equal pay more than 10 years ago.
"The matter before the court on this occasion related to the initial implementation of that scheme - and, more specifically, the decision to offer a three-year period of payment protection as a 'soft landing' for members of the workforce facing a drop in earnings," he said.
Susan Aitken, leader of Glasgow City Council added: "This is a complex legal ruling. However, it is now clear that the award of pay protection was done in a way which discriminated against some of our female workers at that time.
"The right thing to do now is for the council to have open discussions with those workers and their representatives about how we give effect to this ruling. I hope there will be goodwill on both sides during those discussions."


Hours after the Reina nightclub attacker was caught in Istanbul this week, the Turkish government's press office sent out a tweet, quoting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"I served as PM of Turkey for 14 years," it said. "People's life style has never been interfered with and will not be henceforth."
It was a repetition of what the president had said in his first speech after the New Year's Eve attack - "Nobody's lifestyle in Turkey is under systematic threat. I ask the liars saying it: who interfered with your food or drink or clothes?"
Mr Erdogan was responding to allegations that his Islamist-leaning government fostered a climate in which non-Muslim celebrations and alcohol-fuelled parties could be targeted.
In the run-up to the Reina attack, posters and pro-government newspapers carried pictures of a Santa Claus figure being punched and warnings not to celebrate New Year.
In the end, Reina appears to have been targeted as a high-profile location full of tourists, rather than because of what it represented. But the attack has revived a debate over whether Turkey's secular side feels threatened by its pious one.
The narrow streets of Asmali Mescit in central Istanbul were once teeming with nightlife. Alcohol flowed and music played late into the night. Today, most bars have closed down or are largely empty.
It's partly because of the security threat, as the number of foreign tourists plummets and Turks fear venturing out, but also partly because of government restrictions on alcohol.
Under strict laws passed in 2013, an alcohol-licensed bar must be more than 100 metres from a school or a mosque and bars can no longer have tables outside.
"The whole system is geared around impossible regulations so we can't renew our alcohol licence," said bar-owner Kamil Erturk. "They come and say 'your bar stools are too high' or 'if you're a restaurant and people dance after dinner, you're violating your licence'." Mr Erturk had to close his second bar because his alcohol licence was revoked.
"When Erdogan says nobody's lifestyle is under threat, I can only laugh bitterly," he said. "It's not just alcohol, we feel the pressure in every sphere. They manipulate public opinion through the media and online trolls. Anyone who wants to lead a different life is under threat."
Turkey's secular-religious divide has always existed. The Turkish Republic founded by Ataturk in 1923 aimed to look westwards, with a secular constitution and strict control of religion, which for decades ostracised the conservatives.
When Mr Erdogan came to power in 2003, he appeared to bring together the two wings, revoking a decades-long ban on women's headscarves in public institutions but at the same time winning support from many liberals.
But the expanded middle class that emerged under his rule clamoured for more, and his spirit of inclusiveness cracked. Nationwide anti-government protests in 2013 sparked by development plans on Istanbul's Gezi Park were the tipping point.
"Most of us in the park were saying 'stop meddling with how I want to lead my life'," said one of the protest organisers, who was afraid to give his name - an indication in itself of how Turkey has changed.
He went on: "Erdogan was saying women should have at least three kids and there was growing pressure on secular institutions. When it came to asking for more democracy - or true democracy - they said we were separatists or detrimental to society."
From the former deputy prime minister telling women not to laugh in public, to Mr Erdogan calling anybody who drinks "an alcoholic" or rejecting mixed-sex university dormitories, the lifestyle rhetoric has hardened, emboldening the conservatives.
A woman wearing shorts was recently beaten on a public bus; a party in a record shop during Ramadan was attacked by local Islamists; and pro-government newspapers blast out headlines against secularism or leftists. There's a siege mentality in the government and a sense of two visions of the country colliding.
"We who wear headscarves were the ones who were oppressed before this government", said Elif Devecioglu, a designer of Islamic women's fashion, which has become Turkey's fifth-largest industry.
"Academics were taking 17-year-old girls into a room to persuade us not to wear headscarves. It was psychological violenceâ€¦ a crime against humanity. This government has the intention to represent all sides but 14 years is not a long time to change mentalities."
Much has changed in Turkey in a relatively short time, and the pious now hold power while the secularists feel under threat. But Turkey also feels dangerously polarised - a trend likely to deepen as constitutional change is disputed.
Mr Erdogan wants to appoint himself head of the executive, scrapping the prime minister and giving the president sweeping powers to appoint ministers and choose most judges. He argues, with the support of his government, that it will unburden Turkey from unwieldy parliamentary coalitions. The opposition says it'll entrench totalitarianism.
Today's Turkey faces myriad threats and challenges, and yet its response is to fracture, to deepen existing chasms in society. The country is increasingly at war with itself.


A suspicious object that caused a security alert in County Londonderry was a hoax, police have said.

It was discovered at Oakvale Terrace in Upperlands on Friday.
The area was cordoned off and a number of homes evacuated for a time while an Army bomb team examined the object.
Residents have been allowed to return to their homes and all roads reopened.


A health board has been warned of an "unprecedented level" of financial risk in trying to meet its savings goals.

A report to NHS Dumfries and Galloway seeks approval of its five-year revenue plan up to 2021.
However, it highlights a string of challenges in finding the final Â£2m of savings in an overall target of Â£12.7m.
The board is required to deliver a five-year plan rather than a three-year one due to the major capital investment in a new general hospital in Dumfries.
The report flags up ongoing work to develop "innovative solutions" to find the savings needed to break even in 2016/17.
It stresses that opportunities to make operational savings have diminished to the point that the only viable options are in areas considered very high risk.
At the same time, NHS Dumfries and Galloway is said to be facing other financial pressures including increased prescribing costs.
The future opening of the new district general hospital, which is currently under construction in Dumfries, is also said to carry significant budget risks.
Potential pressure areas include the financial impact of running dual services during the transition process and a potential increase in costs required to meet the staffing requirements of a new clinical care model.


A walker wearing "town shoes" suffered chest and leg injuries after he fell 30ft from a rock face in Snowdonia.

The man, in his 20s, from Warwickshire, was walking in Betws y Coed, Conwy county, with friends on Friday night when he slipped after losing his footing.
Rescuers from Ogwen Valley mountain rescue team carried him to a waiting ambulance on a stretcher.
He was taken to Glan Clwyd Hospital, near Rhyl.


A re-imagining of the Joni Mitchell album Hejira in the Scots language and in a Scottish setting will be a festival centrepiece later.

Described as one of the highlights of this year's Celtic Connections, Pilgrimer, as it has been re-titled, will be premiered.
It is 40 years since American singer-songwriter Mitchell released her album.
It was born out of what were often solo journeys across the United States.
She sang about the sights and sounds, the people she met, the experiences.
As the title of one track puts it - The Refuge of the Roads.
Three years later, a young Scot who had been hitchhiking around North America first came across some of that music. James Robertson later became a poet, novelist and champion of the Scots language.
"These songs really began to speak to me as songs about experiences that I myself had had", he explains.
"I think that's why this whole album of songs got into my system and into my bones and has been there ever since, for the best part of 40 years."
About 20 years ago he took the opening track of the album - Coyote - and began playing about with it.
The result was written in Scots, but came out as a poem about a fox, also known as a tod. Some time later, he began looking at some of the other songs on Hejira to see if he might do something similar.
"They're not translations, the word we're using is re-imaginings," says Mr Robertson.
"The words have shifted into Scots but as that has happened, the words have also relocated both geographically and in terms of what they're about, but anyone who knows that album will recognise the tunes."
Where Joni Mitchell sings about the music scene in Memphis, he moves his song to Dundee, referencing singers like Michael Marra.
It was only after a conversation with the Celtic Connections director Donald Shaw that the idea of putting on a concert moved closer to a reality.
There have been challenges to overcome along the way.
"Essentially the words were written as poems and the challenge has been how to make those poems become songs," says songwriter Karine Polwart. Along with her brother, Steven Polwart, she has provided musical direction for the project.
In the past few months she has listened to Hejira 50 or 60 times.
"Joni Mitchell writes in English and she sings in a North American accent," continues Ms Polwart.
"Scots sounds very different, the vowel sounds are different, the consonants are more percussive, so a lot of things that, on the page might look like they're a direct match in terms of syllable and meter for what is written in English. It can't be sung in the same way.
"That has involved a bit of back and forwards, sometimes changing a word or sound so that it works better as a song.
"It's very much his (James Robertson's) vision and his lyrics but between myself and my brother Steven as musical directors we've been thinking about these lyrics as songs."
The concert cast includes Dick Gaughan, Julie Fowlis, Olivia Chaney and Annie Grace, plus Grammy-winning US guitarist Larry Carlton, who played on the original Joni Mitchell album.
Hejira is about journeys and the last year or so has seen unprecedented numbers of people on the move across the world.
"On the road in the same way that Joni Mitchell was but for very different reasons today," says James Robertson. That was in his mind when he was thinking of a title - the word he settled on was pilgrimer.
He added: "It's an old Scots word. It really means pilgrim but it's got this extra syllable and I think it's a very beautiful word.
"There's a little catchphrase that I picked up from a 16th century source which goes like this:
'In this life, we are but travellers, pilgrimers and strangers looking for habitation.'
"That to me captures what a lot of people are on the move for today, they're looking for a place of safety and a place they can call home.
"That seemed to fit in with the ethos of what this whole project is about."


A mother who admitted causing or allowing cruelty towards her 17-month-old son who was later murdered has been jailed for 20 months.

Chloe Thomas, 25, originally denied neglecting Finley, who was found with "catastrophic" injuries at their home near Tonypandy in September 2014.
She changed her plea and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.
Her boyfriend Sean Buckley, 28, was jailed for life after being found guilty of child cruelty and murder.
Buckley had claimed Finley fell down the stairs but he was found to have carried out a "deliberate" attack on him that included hitting him with a garden chair.
The toddler died after suffering a catalogue of injuries that included a fractured skull and broken ribs.
When he was sentenced in June, a judge told Buckley he must serve a minimum 17 years but said he may never be released.
In mitigation, Sally Howes said that while Thomas admitted neglect and allowing cruelty, she did not carry out an assault herself.
The defendant was described as being of "low intellectual capacity" and "a proud mother" before she started a relationship with Buckley.
A post-mortem examination found Finley also had illegal drugs in his system and while Ms Howes said Thomas did not administer these, she admitted exposure to them was "unacceptable by anyone's standards".
She asked for a custodial sentence to be suspended because Thomas was suffering from a "delayed grief reaction".
But, in handing her a 20-month term, Judge Frances Patterson said: "You should have been caring for your son and not closed your eyes to his deteriorating condition."
Head of NSPCC Cymru Des Mannion criticised Thomas for failing to protect her son from the "horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of Sean Buckley".
He said: "Everyone who followed this case would have been deeply affected by hearing the evidence of brutality that blighted Finley's life and it is right that his mother has been jailed for her part."
Mr Mannion said he hoped a detailed review of the case would help provide answers about what had happened.