Brain op for TV presenter

Maori Television presenter Te Hamua Nikora will undergo brain surgery on Monday.

Friends and whanau of the popular presenter banded together over the last month to raise $40,000 of the $60,000 he needed for a private operation to remove a non-cancerous tumour from his pituitary gland.

However, yesterday he was informed that a place had opened up in the public system for the operation. The money raised will now be put into a cancer-focused charitable trust.