Czechs and Poles were mixed in their reaction to the US decision to cancel a missile defence shield based in their countries today.

America today scrapped a Bush-era plan for an Eastern European missile defence defence shield that has been a major problem in relations with Russia.

The US today scrapped plans for a missile defence shield in eastern Europe that had raised new tensions with Russia.

The US appeared today to be preparing to shelve a controversial "missile shield" plan which was to be based in eastern Europe.