Endowed with a camera lens instead of facial features, the mascots for the upcoming games in London were cheered by the children present at their introductory ceremony, but otherwise sent a collective chill down the spines of Britons, who have had to grow accustomed to living in a society patrolled by omnipresent CCTV cameras. With names drawn from the locations in England that supposedly inspired the modern Olympic and Paralympic games, Wenlock and Mandeville have been given a back story that tells how they were fashioned from droplets of steel left over from the construction of the Olympic Stadium, which somehow makes them even less cuddly, if that is possible.