A $150,000 sports car impounded by police after formula one driver Lewis Hamilton performed a burnout in St Kilda has sold for $7000 over its reserve price.

OPERA Australia plans to take its yet-to-be-performed production of Bliss to the Edinburgh International Festival next year.

Border Songs Jim Lynch Bloomsbury, $32.99

Deaths: Butler, Edna; Caddick, Wendy; Halpin, Barry; Paloff, Shirley; Green, Mollie; Oyston, Todd; Wisniewski, Maria; McCudden, Trevor; Rowles, Madeline; Webster, Phyllis. Details Page 42

WESLEY CHURCH HALL Tuesday, June 17, evening session Piano solo, 13 years and under 1. Madeline Bosswell, Figtree; 2. Er-Chi Li, Keiraville. Piano duet, 14 years and under