This edition of Doorstep History is presented from the police lock up on Steelhouse Lane and looks at the plans for the future of the building and includes interviews with attendees at an Open Day held in October 2017. There is a feature on PC Snipe, a policeman who killed whilst serving his community 120 years ago.

The News section has reports from the Wythall based Transport Museum,as one of the buses celebrates its 80th birthday, the removal of the Iron Man statue which was removed to make way for the metro extension and the new Pig & Tail pub in the Jewellery Quarter, which has won an award from the Civic Society.