Distribution of the full sample of 280 LeMMINGs galaxies. Left panel: shown in red are the 173 LeMMINGs galaxies with decent HST imaging studied in this paper, the remaining 107 (shown in blue) are galaxies either (a) with centres obscured by dust, (b) that belong to a pair of merging/interacting galaxies, (c) with peculiar and/or edge-on morphology, (d) with HST images that miss the galaxy centre, or that were taken in narrow-band or mid-UV (F300W) filters only and (e) with no HST observations. Right panel: a plot of the radio core luminosity (L_{Radio, core}) as a function of total galaxy B-band absolute magnitude from Hyperleda (M_B,glxy). The sample studied in this work is representative of the full LeMMINGs sample which is constructed by selecting all the galaxies in Palomar spectroscopic sample (Ho et al. 1995, 1997a) with δ > 20°.