diff --git a/sqs-producer/sqs-producer-tests.ts b/sqs-producer/sqs-producer-tests.ts
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+// Taken straight from sqs-producer's README.md
+
+/// <reference path="./sqs-producer.d.ts"/>
+
+
+import * as Producer from "sqs-producer";
+
+var producer = Producer.create({
+  queueUrl: 'https://sqs.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/account-id/queue-name',
+  region: 'eu-west-1'
+});
+
+// send messages to the queue
+producer.send(['msg1', 'msg2'], function(err) {
+  if (err) console.log(err);
+});
+
+// get the current size of the queue
+producer.queueSize(function (err, size) {
+  if (err) console.log(err);
+
+  console.log('There are', size, 'messages on the queue.');
+});
+
+// send a message to the queue with a specific ID (by default the body is used as the ID)
+producer.send([{
+  id: 'id1',
+  body: 'Hello world'
+}], function(err) {
+  if (err) console.log(err);
+});
+
+// send a message to the queue with
+// - delaySeconds (must be an number contained within 0 and 900)
+// - messageAttributes
+producer.send([
+  {
+    id: 'id1',
+    body: 'Hello world with two string attributes: attr1 and attr2',
+    messageAttributes: {
+      attr1: { DataType: 'String', StringValue: 'stringValue' },
+      attr2: { DataType: 'Binary', BinaryValue: new Buffer('binaryValue') }
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'id2',
+    body: 'Hello world delayed by 5 seconds',
+    delaySeconds: 5
+  }
+], function(err) {
+  if (err) console.log(err);
+});
diff --git a/sqs-producer/sqs-producer.d.ts b/sqs-producer/sqs-producer.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for sqs-producer
+// Project: https://github.com/BBC/sqs-producer
+// Definitions by: Daniel Chao <http://dchao.co/>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+///<reference path="../aws-sdk/aws-sdk.d.ts"/>
+
+declare module "sqs-producer" {
+
+  import { SQS } from "aws-sdk";
+
+  module SQSProducer {
+
+    interface ProducerOpts {
+      queueUrl: string;
+      region?: string;
+      batchSize?: number;
+      sqs?: SQS;
+    }
+
+    interface ProducerCallback<T> {
+      (err?: Error, data?: T): any;
+    }
+
+    interface ProducerMessageAttribute {
+      DataType: "String"|"Binary";
+      StringValue?: string;
+      BinaryValue?: Buffer;
+    }
+
+    interface ProducerMessage {
+      id: string;
+      body: string;
+      messageAttributes?: { [key: string]: ProducerMessageAttribute }
+      delaySeconds?: number;
+    }
+
+    interface ProducerFactory {
+      create(opts: ProducerOpts): Producer;
+    }
+
+    interface Producer {
+      send(messages: string[], cb: ProducerCallback<void>): void;
+      send(messages: ProducerMessage[], cb: ProducerCallback<void>): void;
+      queueSize(cb: ProducerCallback<number>): void;
+    }
+  }
+
+  const Producer: SQSProducer.ProducerFactory;
+  export = Producer;
+}