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In a cop crackdown on underage drinkers, police in Fermanagh and Tyrone have started paying visits to hotels hosting teenage formals.

But these rogue formals are usually organised by the teenagers with no permission from their school and with their parents being duped into thinking their kids are attending a formal organised by teachers.

With at least a dozen of these type of renegade formals being run up to Christmas, the police will continue their clampdown, promised Chief Inspector Graham Dodds.

He said: "These are not school formals. These formal events are often misrepresented to parents who pay for dress or cars etc thinking they are school events when in reality schools will have nothing to do with them.

In a clever ploy to get access to a hotel bar, pupils are booking local venues and billing their party as a school formal so management agrees to the booking.

The informal economy is much closer than the formal to what we call a market economy.

We have been less successful with the formal organizations.

One main reason why the informal sector has not become formal is that from Indonesia to Brazil, 90 percent of the informal lands are not titled and registered.

The issue is that there exists a "common law" and an "informal law" which the Latin American formal legal system does not know how to recognize.