Cardinal Newman: where should the beatification ceremony take place?

Fr Peter has an interesting post about the location at which Cardinal Newman's beatification ceremony should take place. Definitely not London!

His case is roughly this: (1) Cardinal Newman spent something like 40 years of his priestly minsitry working for the poor of industrial Birmingham - this should be particularly remembered during the Year for Priests. It was those poor who lined the streets for his funeral. (2) At one point Cardinal Newman declined an invitation to preach to the "learned", observing that "Birmingham people have souls" and that he preferred to decline the invitation. So it would very much reflect Newman's own spirit if he were to be beatified in Birmingham.